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
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
The Hill, September 17, 2023
Does the Constitution disqualify Trump from running for president?
The Messenger, September 11, 2023
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
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
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
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
The Hill, June 7, 2023
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
Daily News, April 12, 2023
Trump indictment: The odds are in Alvin Bragg’s favor
The Hill, April 6, 2023
The Hill, March 31, 2023
What Happens if Trump is Indicted?
Town & Country, March 23, 2023
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
The Hill, February 1, 2023
Has Merrick Garland Outmaneuvered Himself?
Washington Monthly, January 27, 2023
The Hill, January 23, 2023
Delay Has Already Weakened Garland’s Case Against Trump
Washington Monthly, January 18, 2023
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
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
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
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
Newsom’s paradox: California v. Texas
December 14, 2021, The Hill
The Stench is Coming from the Supreme Court
December 13, 2021, History News Network
Merrick Garland, Steve Bannon and the rule of law
December 2, 2021, Daily News
A miscarriage of justice in Kenosha
November 19, 2021, The Hill
Will SCOTUS Force Us All to Find Out How Polite an Armed Society Will Be?
November 14, 2021, History News Network
The Alec Baldwin case: The law intersects with politics
October 25, 2021, The Hill
The case against Cuomo weakens
October 22, 2021, New York Daily News
The Supreme Court’s partisanship is becoming increasingly difficult to deny
October 4, 2021, The Hill
Trump’s weird lawsuit in Poughkeepsie
September 28, 2021, New York Daily News
The new front in Americans’ long fight for the right to vote
September 23, 2021, Prospect (London)
The tragedy of 9/11–an inflection point in American history
September 10, 2021, The Hill
Masks and vaccines: What price freedom?
August 23, 2021, The Hill
Is this fair treatment for Cuomo?
August 10, 2021, New York Daily News
New Yorkers must decide how disqualifying Andrew Cuomo’s behavior has been
August 4, 2021, The Hill
July 23, 2021, The Hill
Trump Cheated on His Taxes. What Happens Now?
July 19, 2021, History News Network
Why Trump (probably) won’t be indicted
July 12, 2021, The Hill
Trump is suing New York over a golf course. That could be a big mistake.
June 28, 2021, The Washington Post
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
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
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
February 16, 2021, Bill Moyers
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
January 8, 2021, Bill Moyers
January 5, 2021, Bill Moyers
December 24, 2020, The Hill
To Be or Not To Be a Republican
December 21, 2020, History News Network
December 13, 2020, The Hill
November 25, 2020, Bill Moyers
November 16, 2020, Bill Moyers
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 Headless Horseman
August 7, 2020, Tortoise
Trump’s too little, too late coronavirus pivot
July 29, 2020, The Hill
Listening to Trump gave Sunbelt governors a new COVID-19 headache
July 15, 2020, The Hill
A sad day for Princeton
July 1, 2020, The Hill
Will George Floyd’s Murder Be Trump’s Undoing?
June 28, 2020, History Network News
Trump’s Freedom for the Thought He Loves
June 3, 2020, Bill Moyers
Pandemic, Pandering and Prejudice: Trump’s Effort to Weaponize Xenophobia
May 24, 2020, History Network News
Who is Softer on China, Trump or Biden?
May 6, 2020, Bill Moyers
What’s Mine is Yours and What’s Yours is Mine
April 29, 2020, Bill Moyers
How long will it take to conquer the coronavirus — and what sort of society will it leave behind?
April 7, 2020, The Hill
Can you kill a virus with a gun?
April 1, 2020, The Hill
Donald Trump: New York’s Thankless Child
March 26, 2020, The Hill
Will Trump’s tax returns ever see the light of day?
March 10, 2020, The Hill
Is coronavirus panic a hoax?
March 2, 2020, The Hill
Last Night in Vegas
February 20, 2020, The Hill
A divisive speech for a divided union
February 5, 2020, The Hill
Will the Supreme Court protect the rule of law, or Donald Trump?
December 16, 2019, The Hill
Donald Trump’s paranoid style
December 6, 2019, Prospect (London)
The shifting impeachment positions of Jonathan Turley
December 5, 2019, The Hill
September 24, 2019 was a momentous day for the rule of law
September 25, 2019, Prospect (London)
Opinion: Donald Trump is having a Louis XIV moment. He considers himself above the law
September 20, 2019, LA Times
Robert M. Morgenthau Dies at 99: Remembering ‘the Boss’
July 23, 2019, Time
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