In January 2016, Bill Clinton’s presidential library made public transcripts of telephone calls between the president and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The calls, placed between May 1997 and December 2000, represent, as the New York Times noted, “a time capsule . . . captur[ing] the priorities and perceptions of the moment that,
There is an important reason why courts do not admit evidence that stems from corrupt law enforcement or prosecutorial activity—evidence known in law as “the fruit of the poisonous tree.” If corrupt governmental activities lead to convictions, and the threat of such convictions is used to trample upon the rights of free citizens,
There is a different story to be told about the Republicans’ midterm defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has nothing to do with President Trump or his leadership and everything to do, interestingly, with the Senate and its arcane, institutional rules. Let there be no doubt: were it not for the
