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Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, where he specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. He has also worked in the private sector on complex commercial litigation and white-collar corporate defense. His column, "Rules of Law," offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs and the political dimensions of the law at a moment when the two are inextricably linked.

ChatGPT | Rewrote the constitution (02.07.24)
The Supreme Court's decision is a failure of law in the purest sense. It is, in fact, politics masquerading as law. But today's outcome also represents a failure of politics—or, more to the point, of politicians legislators. Many of them, on both sides of the aisle, made bad decisions that contributed to Monday's outcome. All of them share some responsibility for where we find ourselves.

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I know I will respect the limits of the presidential power, as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.

I concur with Justice Sotomayor's dissent today.  She—here's what she said [p 68-97]. She said, "In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.  With fear for our democracy, I dissent," end of quote.

So should the American people dissent. I dissent.

May God bless you all. And may God help preserve our democracy. Thank you. And may God protect our troops.

ADL sues Iran, North Korea, and Syria over Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, 1 July

The suit comes on behalf of 100 Americans or their families seeking to hold the trio of countries responsible for "the deaths, physical and emotional injuries, and hostage-takings Hamas caused during its barbaric rampage."

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ChatGPT | Scholz set to announce compensation for Polish survivors of Nazi crimes, 1 July Weimar Triangle

Scholz aims to further improve his country's relations with Poland after Prime Minister Donald Tusk took office last year....The current Polish government has dropped the reparation demands, but Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has called on Germany to find a 'creative solution' to compensate the Polish people for their suffering.

Though the Sept. 18 date is well after this month's Republican National Convention, where Trump is set formally to accept the party's nomination for president in this year's race, it is far closer to Election Day, which could put the issue top-of-mind for voters just as they seriously tune into the race.
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An appeals court recently paused a separate election interference case against Trump, in Georgia; no trial date has been set. His federal classified documents case in Florida remains bogged down by pretrial disputes that have resulted in an indefinite cancelation of the trial date.

Trump's Monday letter to Justice Juan Merchan cited a March 7 pretrial motion in which his attorneys argued that certain testimony and evidence, particularly pertaining to Trump's public statements and social media posts while in office, were evidence corresponding to official acts.

seeking to lift the gag order imposed against former President Trump during his hush money trial and delay sentencing for his conviction in that case until after the November election.

While there may be legal challenges down the line, experts say the ruling does not extend immunity protections for commanders and enlisted service members who carry out the president's orders.

Cannon, in a TL;DR 93-page ruling, concluded that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

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