Sometimes the law is complex and esoteric; other times it’s incredibly intuitive. The principles that govern sentencing are the latter. They are a distillation of commonly shared values in personal morality and public policy. As a former prosecutor and current defense attorney who has argued hundreds of sentencings, I have …
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Donald Trump may be the first American president convicted of a felony, but he has no plans to let his conviction stand — and he’s enlisting congressional Republicans to help him undermine the case. According to a report from Politico, shortly after his May 31 conviction, an enraged Trump called …
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There are few contrasts more striking between Donald Trump and Joe Biden than on addressing climate change. As president, Biden has made confronting the threat of rising greenhouse emissions and global temperatures a central project of his administration. In 2022, Biden secured passage of the historic Inflation Reduction Act, which …
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Donald Trump paid a visit to Capitol Hill on Thursday in what was supposed to be a day of policy discussions and planning for a second Trump term. Instead, the former president reportedly spent a significant amount of time complaining about women. Trump reportedly spent time complaining that superstar singer …
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Supporters of Donald Trump woke up Wednesday morning to a startling email message from the former president: “HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!” Thankfully, it was not a declaration of intent by Trump, but a melodramatic fundraising pitch accusing his political opponents of wanting to behead him. “Remember when that Sicko Kathy …
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O NE AFTERNOON IN LATE APRIL, Vice President Kamala Harris climbed into a large black car parked in the garage of the CBS Broadcast Center on New York’s West 57th Street and sat bolt-upright in the leather seat. She’d just finished taping an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show — …
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Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compromised.” He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to “return our country to …
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An upcoming book about Donald Trump and the impact of his hit reality TV series The Apprentice contains, for some reason, some new Donald Trump thoughts about Taylor Swift. The excerpt was revealed in Variety, as the publication’s co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh wrote the upcoming book, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald …
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Donald Trump met with his probation officer on Monday following his conviction late last month on 34 felonies for crimes he committed to help boost his election chances when he first ran for president in 2016. The presumptive Republican nominee for president sat for his pre-sentencing probation interview from Mar-a-Lago …
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Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, is incensed about seeing rainbow Pride flags during Pride Month, according to a new recording obtained by Rolling Stone. If it were up to her, she would be flying a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag in response. Or she might design …
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