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Trump's Legal Team Keeps Losing Their Licenses Over Him
Professor Daniel Z. Epstein joins a list of Trump lawyers who have lost their standing for representing him. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams barred him from practicing in the Southern District of Florida for one year. She also referred a second Trump attorney, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida Bar for possible discipline. Both sanctions come from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, a case filed by a sitting president against agencies led by his own app

Maria Salinas
Jul 154 min read


When the Receipts Finally Hit the Kitchen Table
There are political books that tell readers something new, and then there are political books that simply confirm what many Americans have been screaming at their televisions for the better part of a decade. Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan belongs firmly in the second category. For anyone who has spent the last several years asking, “Wait… this is really happening?” This book arrives carrying enough receipts to wallpaper the entire kitchen. Draw

Janie Flores-Alvarez
Jul 133 min read


Comply or Die Is a Pattern, Not a Warning
Somebody's mother taught her children to keep their hands where officers could see them, to speak slowly, to do exactly what the badge said and nothing more. That lesson used to buy safety. Renee Good followed it. Alex Pretti followed it. Ruben Ray Martinez followed it, brake lights lit, car barely moving, hands where anyone could see them. All three ended up dead anyway, and the country owes their families more than a press release calling it self-defense. "Comply or die" is

Maria Salinas
Jul 105 min read


Above the Law, Literally
The Supreme Court Every federal judge in the United States operates under a binding code of conduct. Every single one, except nine. The nine people with the most power in the American legal system have spent the better part of two centuries answering to no one but themselves, and the country is only recently, reluctantly, starting to reckon with what that actually means. The Supreme Court had been the only court in the country without a binding ethics code. That changed in No

Maria Salinas
Jul 24 min read
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