Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
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How can it be that the most devastating legal opinion ever written about an American president may not trigger a criminal investigation?
In taking up the representation of detainees, Ketanji Brown Jackson did a service to the system.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, all the suspects were allowed to go home—setting up the biggest criminal investigation in the FBI’s history.
The Jan. 6 Committee filed a brief in federal court asserting that evidence "establishes a good-faith belief that [former President] Trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts.”
Some speculation as the statutes of limitations for offenses described in the Mueller report begin to run down.
The former president is in a dramatically weaker position than he was before the latest D.C. Circuit opinion.