Jeffrey Toobin
The View from Here
The Founding Fathers assumed the president’s power to pardon would be exercised with restraint. They didn’t figure on Donald Trump
The Strange Case of the Presidential-Pardon Pro
A top clemency expert’s story is even more twisted than his findings—including Rutherford B. Hayes’s 24 murder pardons
Dark and Stormy
The porn star whose testimony could help convict Donald Trump before the election has a new career as a gay icon and no intention of paying the $670,000 that she owes the former president
Big Law Gets Bigger
Paul, Weiss once embraced a variety of civic-minded causes. Today, the law firm seems more focused on its own bottom line
Original Spin
How R.F.K. Jr. tried to frame two innocent men for murder
Legal Weasel
Nerdy Harvard lawyer Ken Chesebro (Co-Conspirator 5) was a liberal until he got rich on Bitcoin and veered right, so much so that he advised Trump to use false electors to derail the 2020 election
Changing Places
Linda Fairstein put Yusef Salaam in prison for the attack on the Central Park jogger. He was exonerated and is running for office; she is excoriated and living as a pariah
Birth of an Abomination
Although Timothy McVeigh will forever be linked to Oklahoma City, his virulent outlook was forged in the desolate Flint Hills of Kansas