Op-Ed Archive

The end of the Fani Willis affair

The Hill, March 16, 2024

How the Justice Department’s Trump Prosecution Ran Aground

Washington Monthly, March 12, 2024

Trump wins again in the MAGA Supreme Court

The Hill, March 5, 2024

Is it time for Jack Smith to throw in the towel on prosecuting Trump?

The Hill, March 4, 2024

Has the Supreme Court gone ga-ga or MAGA?

The Hill, February 29, 2024

Why Hur’s Gratuitous Smear of Biden Is a Study in Prosecutorial Abuse

Washington Monthly, February 14, 2024

Rocky Mountain low: Colorado’s lawyer didn’t get it right before the Supreme Court

The Hill, February 9, 2024

Can Andrew Cuomo Really Make a Political Comeback?

Washington Monthly, February 6, 2024

Can Trump delay his legal reckoning past Election Day?

The Hill, February 4, 2024

If the conservative justices actually believe in originalism, they must disqualify Trump

The Hill, February 1, 2024

Trump and Giuliani Can’t Easily Wiggle Out of Defamation Payments

Washington Monthly, January 21, 2024

With Trump’s victory in Iowa, we’re inching toward autocracy

The Hill, January 18, 2024

Trump the Autocrat at the Counsel Table

Washington Monthly, January 13, 2024

Trump’s immunity appeal was both laughable and frightening

The Hill, January 10, 2024

To disqualify or not to disqualify: The Supreme Court confronts the ‘laugh test’

The Hill, January 8, 2024

Will Trump’s disqualification case be Bush v. Gore for 2024?

The Hill, January 2, 2024

Will Trump’s Disqualification Turn on Whether an 1869 Case Was Wrongly Decided?

Washington Monthly, December 27, 2023

Is the Colorado decision a Rocky Mountain high?

The Hill, December 20, 2023

Can Trump Delay His Way Out of Criminal Convictions?

Washington Monthly, December 19, 2023

Do You Oppose Jewish Genocide? ‘It Depends’ Is Not the Right Answer

The Messenger, December 14, 2023

Is a president immune from prosecution? The Supreme Court will decide

The Hill, December 11, 2023

Trump’s ‘similar acts’ unveiled before his election interference trial

The Hill, December 7, 2023

Santos, Menendez, Trump: The ethics mirage in Washington

The Hill, December 4, 2023

Hunter Biden’s Offer to Give Public Testimony — Risky Bluff or Smart Strategy?

The Messenger, November 29, 2023

After the January 6 Attack, How Can Trump Remain on the Ballot?

Washington Monthly, November 20, 2023

Has Trump Gone Even Crazier?

Washington Monthly, November 17, 2023

Trump wants to turn the government into a weapon for personal revenge

The Hill, November 13, 2023

Could Trump’s delay-at-all-costs legal strategy actually work?

The Hill, November 8, 2023

Trump 2.0: Trump’s Justice end game

The Hill, November 6, 2023

A strong libel case against Netflix and Ava Duvernay

The Hill, October 15, 2023

Can Trump conceivably beat the legal clock–and the rap?

The Hill, October 9, 2023

Is the New York fraud suit against Trump biased?

The Hill, October 5, 2023

The removal dilemma: Trump’s fatal choice

The Hill, October 2, 2023

It’s Good to Be a Judge. For Some, a Little Too Good.

Washington Monthly, October 1, 2023

A ‘murder of lawyers’ argues about Trump and the 14th Amendment

The Hill, September 27, 2023

Senator Menendez and the Presumption of Innocence

The Messenger, September 27, 2023

All the president’s henchmen

The Hill, September 17, 2023

Does the Constitution disqualify Trump from running for president?

The Messenger, September 11, 2023

Why Trump must drop out

The Hill, September 5, 2023

Confused about Trump’s legal problems? Read this.

The Hill, August 30, 2023

Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Moment: Can He Keep the Old Gang Together?

The Messenger, August 28, 2023

Can Trump’s co-defendants make a federal case out of the Georgia indictment?

The Hill, August 22, 2023

What Will It Take for GOP to Decide It’s Time to Rid Itself of Donald Trump?

The Messenger, August 18, 2023

Will the Prosecution of Trump Have Terrible Consequences?

Washington Monthly, August 15, 2023

Trump says he has blanket immunity. Not so fast.

The Hill, August 15, 2023

Two-Tiered Justice, or Vindicating the Rule of Law?

The Messenger, August 5, 2023

Yet another Hunter ‘bombshell’ is a dud

The Hill, August 2, 2023

Hunter’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Plea Deal: Why It broke and What’s Next

The Messenger, July 29, 2023

What’s in a trial date?

The Hill, July 25, 2023

How Serious is the Authoritarian Threat Here and Abroad?

Washington Monthly, July 24, 2023

“Diet Coke Valet” is the Tail Wagging the Dog in Trump Documents Case

The Messenger, July 15, 2023

How to bring Putin to justice

The Hill, July 10, 2023

Which Will be Tougher: Picking a Trump Trial Date or Proving the Case?

The Messenger, June 28, 2023

“What about Hunter Biden?’ We now have the answer

The Hill, June 21, 2023

Cannon Fodder: The Judge in the Trump Documents Case Sets An Early Trial Date, But That’s Not Happening

Washington Monthly, June 20, 2023

How Trump ended up with Judge Cannon

The Hill, June 16, 2023

How Delay and Recusal Might Save Trump

Washington Monthly, June 12, 2023

Is There Life After Indictment for Donald Trump?

The Messenger, June 9, 2023

Chris Licht’s big mistakes

The Hill, June 7, 2023

What’s keeping Jack Smith?

The Hill, June 5, 2023

Trump’s Next Indictment: Just a Question of ‘What’ and ‘When’

The Messenger, May 26 2023

Durham Report Didn’t Vindicate Trump, and It Missed the True ‘Crime of the Century’

The Messenger, May 21, 2023

Tom Hanks, Donald Trump, and the End of Truth

Washington Monthly, May 20, 2023

Only Republicans Want to Push Us Into Default

The Nation, May 17, 2023

Trump, Santos and our calamitous-ish political landscape

The Hill, May 12, 2023

To testify or not to testify: Trump’s fateful choice

The Hill, May 8, 2023

The latest stench in the Supreme Court

The Hill, May 2, 2023

The Reversal of Trump’s Fortunes

Washington Monthly, April 28, 2023

Reform hope after US justice embroiled in gifts scandal

London Times April 27, 2023

Why is everyone trashing Alvin Bragg?

The Hill April 22, 2023

Clarence Thomas’s Vacation Scandal Shouldn’t Fade From Memory

Washington Monthly, April 13, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan’s New York sideshow: The House Judiciary Committee chairman’s phony factfinding trip to Manhattan

Daily News, April 12, 2023

Trump indictment: The odds are in Alvin Bragg’s favor

The Hill, April 6, 2023

‘Teflon Don’ no more

The Hill, March 31, 2023

What Happens if Trump is Indicted?

Town & Country, March 23, 2023

The first indictment

The Hill, March 20, 2023

Indict Donald Trump over Stormy Daniels payoff? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dilemma

Daily News, March 15, 2023

Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Solves a Lot of Problems

Washington Monthly, March 13, 2023

Pence to Trump: I Just Can’t Quit You

Washington Monthly, February 28, 2023

George Santos: A grifter in the American tradition

The Hill, February 17, 2023

Prosecutors seek a rat in Trumpville

The Hill, February 6, 2023

Trump’s tall tale of the tape

The Hill, February 1, 2023

Has Merrick Garland Outmaneuvered Himself?

Washington Monthly, January 27, 2023

Was Alec Baldwin reckless?

The Hill, January 23, 2023

Delay Has Already Weakened Garland’s Case Against Trump

Washington Monthly, January 18, 2023

The sell-out and the speech

The Hill, January 16, 2023

Two-Tiered Justice, or Vindicating the Rule of Law?

The Messenger, August 5, 2023

The Biden papers and the Mar-a-Lago documents: Apples and oranges?

The Hill, January 11, 2023

Mr. Santos goes to Washington

The Hill, January 3, 2023

When is it a crime not to remember?

Daily News, January 1, 2023

How Big a Deal Is the January 6th Committee’s Criminal Referral?

Washington Monthly, December 21, 2022

What Will the Manhattan D.A. Do Next with Trump?

Washington Monthly, December 12, 2022

What happened to the investigation into the Dobbs draft leak?

The Hill, December 3, 2022

Will Alvin Bragg get the Trump bragging rights?

The Hill, November 27, 2022

To indict or not to indict, that is the question

The Hill, November 20, 2022

Mr. Attorney General, the time to indict Trump is now

Daily News, November 15, 2022

Do we really need a special counsel to indict Trump?

The Hill, November 6.2022

A Primer on Trump’s Legal Woes

Washington Monthly, November 2, 2022

The midterms: Between the election and the agenda falls the shadow

October 30, The Hill

Is the Supreme Court about to make another political decision?

October 21, 2022, The Hill

Great Britain’s Conservatives Are Screwing Up The Economy

October 6, 2022, Washington Monthly

Britain’s economic slump: Does the fault lie with Brexit?

September 30, 2022, The Hill

Can Garland Keep Donald Trump From Office?

September 27, 2022, Washington Monthly

Has Garland screwed up the Mar-a-Lago case?

September 13, 2022, The Hill

Indict Trump Over Mar-A-Lago Documents? Don’t Indict? There’s a Third Option

September 7, 2022, Washington Monthly

Is the Mar-a-Lago case doomed?

September 7, 2022, The Hill

Who is more likely to be indicted-Donald Trump or Hunter Biden

August 26, 2022, The Hill

A tribute to a great prosecutor

August 23, 2022, Daily News

Can Trump be disqualified from running for president?

August 10, 2022, The Hill

Abortion: The litigation that will not go away

August 4, 2022, The Hill

The Supreme Court’s Originalist Obsession Continues

July 29, 2022, Washington Monthly

The government calls Pat Cipollone

July 28, 2022, The Hill

There’s more than. enough evidence to charge Trump with seditious conspiracy

July 26, 2022, Daily News

Is New York about to become the Wild West?

July 15, 2022, The Hill

Dark Skies Over Scotus

July 3, 2022, History News Network

The challenge of prosecuting Trump

June 20, 2022, The Hill

Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Conspiracy Is Easy to Prove

June 12, 2022, History News Network

In America, the rule of law remains elusive

June 5, 2022, Daily News

There Oughta Be a Law

June 5, 2022, History News Network

Is the spike in gas prices good for America?

May 23, 2022, The Hill

If the US bans abortion, what rights will be axed next?

May 19, 2022, The Times (London)

A draft, a leak and an inflection point in Supreme Court history

May 4, 2022, The Hill

A tale of two would-be prosecutions: Donald Trump and Hunter Biden

May 3, 2022, Daily News

Did trump ‘entrap’ the Jan. 6 rioters?

April 15, 2022, The Hill

On “Smoking Guns”-Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)

April 12, 2022, History Network News

Will Donald Trump Beat the Rap after all?

April 3, 2022, Daily News

Four GOP senators who should go back to law school

March 25, 2022, The Hill

Decoding Partisan Declarations of What Makes a “Good Judge”

March 23, 2022, History News Network

Is Merrick Garland finally ready to indict Donald Trump?

March 15, 2022, The Hill

The case against Donald Trump in Manhattan

March 1, 2022, Daily News

Ahmaud Arbery can begin to ‘rest in power’

February 23, 2022, The Hill

Is it time to recall the recall?

February 4, 2022, The Hill

Prince Andrew easily could have won his bid to get the suit against him tossed

January 20, 2022, Washington Post

Has the Supreme Court lost its compass?

January 4, 2022, The Hill

The gathering coup: 2022 and the years that follow will further test our democracy

January 3, 2022, Daily News

The punctuated sentence of Derek Chauvin

June 27, 2021, The Hill

What’s Happened to Merrick Garland

June 16, 2021, The Hill

COVID vaccine passports pose more questions than answers

June 7, 2021, The Hill

How long will Trump remain immune?

May 28, 2021, The Hill

The curious case of the COVID-19 origin

May 17, 2021, The Hill

Biden and ghost guns

May 11, 2021, The Hill

Will we finance Biden’s spending with confiscatory taxes?

April 28, 2021, The Hill

Is the antidote to bad speech more speech or more regulation?

April 19, 2021, The Hill

The knives are out for Cuomo

April 9, 2021, New York Daily News

Can Derek Chauvin possibly be acquitted?

March 31, 2021, The Hill

Will diplomacy work with Iran?

March 24, 2021, The Hill

Politicization of the Judiciary

March 1, 2021, History News Network

When a Trial is Not a Trial

February 16, 2021, Bill Moyers

The Senate’s Sad Signal

January 28, 2021, The Hill

Were Trump’s Pardons Even Legal?

January 17, 2021, History News Network

Incitement and the First Amendment

January 12, 2021, Bill Moyers

The Putsch of January 6, 2021

January 8, 2021, Bill Moyers

The Abominable No-Men

January 5, 2021, Bill Moyers

Death Is Different

December 24, 2020, The Hill

To Be or Not To Be a Republican

December 21, 2020, History News Network

Trump’s Last Gasp

December 13, 2020, The Hill

I Beg Your Pardon

November 25, 2020, Bill Moyers

Where’s My Bill Barr?

November 16, 2020, Bill Moyers

A transition in disarray

November 11, 2020, The Hill

Beyond Court Packing: The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political

November 2, 2020, Time

A supremely partisan judge for a supremely partisan court
October 28, 2020, Tortoise

Could Justice Amy Conan Barrett deliver the election to Trump?
October 26, 2020, The Hill

Trump should try a little empathy
October 11, 2020, The Hill

In Memoriam: RBG
September 19, 2020 New York Post

The Strange Case of Carroll v. Trump — An Adventure in Wonderland
September 11, 2020, Bill Moyers

The Headless Horseman: William Barr and the Attorney General
September 7, 2020, History News Network

Drop-Box Voting Is the Election Reform the U.S. Needs Now
August 26, 2020, Bloomberg

The Election-Go-Round: Democracy in Peril
August 7, 2020, Bill Moyers

The Supreme Court’s Rightward Lurch
July 10, 2018, The Nation

Not Even Trump Can Break the Justice Department
July 12, 2017, Time

A Tribute to Frank Deford
May 30, 2017, Huffington Post

The Man Who First Fueled Donald Trump’s Paranoid Politics
April 14, 2017, Time

Who Is Neil Gorsuch?
February 2, 2017, Prospect (London)

Trump’s Dance with the Law
January, 2017, Counsel

What Will the Supreme Court Look Like in a Donald Trump Presidency?
November 11, 2016, The Nation

What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Supreme Court?
November 11, 2016, Prospect (London)

How Trump Will Shape the US Supreme Court
November 10, 2016, London Times

In the Wake of a Trump Triumph, Will the Supreme Court Still Favour the Underdog
November 4, 2016, The Jewish Chronicle (London)

America’s Top Court Is Becoming Dangerously Political
October 26, 2016, London Times

Justice Barack Obama?
October 13, 2016, Prospect (London)

The Only Thing Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did Wrong Was Apologize
July 15, 2016, The Nation

Do Judges Make or Find the Law?
May 9, 2016, Huffington Post

Killing Woodrow Wilson: The Battle of Princeton
December 4, 2015, Huffington Post

The Death Penalty Cases Before the Supreme Court Are a Prelude to a Legal Assault on the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
June 16, 2015, The Nation

Does Religious Freedom Trump Other Constitutional Rights?
April 27, 2015, Huffington Post

A Matter of Ethics
February 4, 2015, Forbes

Obama Wasn’t There
January 16, 2015, Forbes

Question From China: How Do American Lawyers Bribe U.S. Judges?
November 11, 2014, Forbes

The Business of Sex: Have We Come to a New Normal?
September 5, 2014, Forbes

If John Gotti Was The ‘Teflon Don’, Then Roy Cohn Was The ‘Teflon Rogue’
May 8, 2014, CNN

Pistorius’ Cross Examination
July 8, 2014, Forbes

Pistorious trial in the U.S.?
May 5, 2014, The Daily Beast

Genovese, Costello And Anastasia: The Decline And Fall Of The American Mafia
April 22, 2014, Forbes

Getting at the Truth? Cross-examination is the Crowning Glory of Our Legal System
February 11, 2014, Forbes

How a Seasoned Litigator Became a Talk Show Host
August 4, 2013, Forbes

Do We Achieve Anything By Arming the Syrian Rebels?
June 19, 2013, Forbes

The Boston Bombers: Follow the Money
April 23, 2013, World Policy Journal

The Obama-Erdogan Conference: Let Us Preach What We Practice
April 16, 2013, Forbes

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): A Personal Encounter
April, 8, 2013, Forbes

Aaron Swartz’ Suicide Forces Hard Questions About the Criminal Justice System
March 29, 2013, Forbes

The Strange Case of Oscar Pistorius
February 27, 2013, Forbes

Gay Marriage Debate Will Bring Ideological War Between Chief Justice Roberts and Obama to the Forefront
January 24, 2013, Forbes

True Sparrows or Fake Eagles
January 19, 2013, Forbes

The Only Way to Disarm Is to Disarm
January 3, 2013, Forbes

The End Is At Hand
December 21, 2012, Forbes

Does A Military Trial for KSM Make any Sense?
December 2, 2012, Forbes

Holder v. Congress: Political Firefight or Legal Contempt
June 22, 2012, Forbes

Erdogan’s Turkish Spring: Crosscurrents in the Bosphorus
June 4, 2012, Forbes

Why Israel Will Attack Iran
April 6. 2012, Forbes

The Year of Uncertainty
December 28, 2011, Forbes

Should There Be a Statute of Limitations for Presidential Candidates?
November 10, 2011, Forbes

The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Affair: To Proceed or Not to Proceed
August 5, 2011, Forbes

Spinning the Law: Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion
February 4, 2011, Forbes

Sleeping With The Fishes
July 21, 2010, Forbes

Court Rules On ‘Honest Services’ Fraud
June 25, 2010, Forbes

Order In The Court
June 8, 2010, Forbes
The Lost Art Of Honest Services
May 25, 2010, Forbes

Cyberwar or surreality?
May 3, 2010, Washington Times

Abdicating on a ‘cyber czar’?
Oct 14, 2009, Los Angeles Times

Solving The Health Care Quagmire
Aug 20, 2009, Forbes

On the brink of failure
Aug 12, 2009, Washington Times

Stolen e-mail evidence?
July 9, 2009, Washington Times

The longest year
Jan 1, 2009, Washington Times

A Real Memo For The President-Elect
June 03, 2008, Forbes

Close Guantanamo–And Then What?
Apr 29, 2008, Forbes

Keeping Your Child From Internet Drugs
Apr 17, 2008, Forbes

Keeping The Internet Drug-Free
Apr 17, 2008, Forbes

The Fragile State Of Internet Freedom
Feb 29, 2008, Forbes

In Pictures: The Dark Side Of The Internet
Feb 29, 2008, Forbes

The Rule Of Law?
Jan 7, 2008, Forbes

How To Spy On People
Nov 28, 2007, Forbes

Taking down terrorist Web sites
Oct 29, 2007, Washington Times

Senator Craig’s Strange Bedfellow
Sep 20, 2007, Forbes

Berlin: A Crossroads Of The New Europe
Sep 13, 2007, Forbes

Quest for identity in Egypt
Feb 18, 2007, Washington Times

Digital cops and robbers?
Nov 25, 2006, Washington Times

Terrorism in the digital age
Dec 5, 2005, Washington Times

Blackstone on Gutbucket
October 6, 1966, The Reporter