The Department of Justice used an "a/k/a" designation against Rep. Ilhan Omar to suggest fraud, substituting a prosecutorial label for a judicial finding in a misuse of the legal process.
By Adele Rutherford ·
By charging former FBI officials via criminal complaint on the eve of an election, Jeanine Pirro sacrifices institutional legitimacy to transform the legal process into a short-term political weapon.
By Adele Rutherford ·
By raiding Rep. Ilhan Omar's home weeks before the midterms, the Justice Department has traded institutional legitimacy for political theater in a criminal immigration probe.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The Trump administration raided Representative Ilhan Omar's home and reopened old citizenship questions, substituting raw executive intimidation for the legitimate process of federal law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Donald Trump prioritized a July 4 deadline over technical curing times for the Reflecting Pool, resulting in a botched installation and the wrongful prosecution of David Hearn.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
By dismissing the case against David Hearn with prejudice, Judge Todd Edelman stopped executive pressure from reviving a meritless prosecution.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The spectacle of a national memorial—a place meant to anchor us in shared memory and sacrifice—being defaced with bubble soap and graffiti is inherently jarring.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
You read the headlines—Jeanine Pirro convenes a special grand jury in Washington. It sounds like some kind of necessary, due-process check on power.
By Josie Calloway ·
The American tendency, when faced with inconvenient truths about institutional failure, is to locate a scapegoat.
By Emilio Quesada ·
There are certain sites in a city—monuments, public spaces—that function less as mere architecture and more as shared cultural memory.
By Elena Rossi ·
The most enduring lesson in governance is that stability is not achieved by grand gestures or rhetorical fury; it is maintained by boring competence and adherence to the rulebook.
By Klaus Berger ·
I rarely find myself so thoroughly disappointed by the American machinery of justice. It is tiresome, frankly, to watch powerful institutions mistake visible damage for criminal intent.
By Adele Rutherford ·