Donald Trump has been indicted for crimes in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A legal scholar looks at the law to determine whether he can boycott his upcoming trials.
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Scholarly experts explain many aspects and angles of the criminal cases involving former president Donald Trump.
The GOP in the House and Senate is doing lots of investigations; Democrats did the same in the past. A scholar of congressional oversight asks: When are investigations justified?
Former President Donald Trump was indicted on further charges over his hoarding of classified documents – and he has a new co-defendant in the case.
The Justice Department issues target letters to people who are about to be charged with crimes, giving them a warning and a chance to get legal counsel.
Before there was Jack Smith, there was the House January 6 committee. Its work and findings may provide a hint about what new charges Smith might lodge against former President Donald Trump.
A former national security staffer, now a scholar of secrecy law, says criticisms of Trump’s federal indictment for hoarding classified documents are unfounded.
Espionage Act violations come in many different forms and can result in a wide variety of punishments.
The Constitution says that a trial must be held where an alleged crime happened – while Trump’s indictment mentions Washington, D.C. and Florida, there are a few reasons why Florida was the pick.
When everything is seen as political – indictments, Supreme Court decisions, scientific findings – a democracy may be on its way to fascism.
The indicted, and twice-impeached president is still racing ahead his Republican opponents in the polls. Why?
Since Facebook removed online hate groups and individuals from its platform, extremist groups are increasingly organizing in more discreet ways.
The indictment identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. A scholar of intelligence studies examines four of them.
Like all criminal defendants, Trump will enjoy the protection that a jury will offer from abuse by government prosecutors.
If you were Trump’s lawyer, what would you advise him to do now? Two national security specialists have some words for and about the former president after his federal indictment.
Trump’s indictment on serious charges is no “witch-hunt”, but his ability to keep attracting supporters remains undimmed.
There are 38 felony charges against former President Donald Trump, and while it’s unlikely, he could potentially be sentenced to serve 400 years if found guilty on all of them.
Spy cases are rare. More typically, as in the Trump indictment, the act applies to the unauthorized gathering, possessing or transmitting of certain sensitive government information.
Presidents have historically criticized judicial decisions. But Trump is taking it a step further with potentially dangerous personal attacks on judges.
False business records – not hush money payments – are at the heart of New York’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But not all the alleged crimes have been revealed.
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Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of Criminal Law, Immigration, and Race and Law, University of California, Davis
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Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago
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Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Political Science, Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Law; Senior Faculty Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Political Science and Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington
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Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies, Texas A&M University
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
