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Trump’s Prosecutions Depend on Whether the Dissent Got It Right

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the Supreme Court's majority granted “former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.” 
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Divided Supreme Court Hands Trump Broad Immunity for Prosecution for Official Acts

The Court set forth a legal framework for the criminal justice system to respond to a president committing federal crimes while in office.
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Search Challenge Flounders: Judge Signals Warrant Passed Muster

Trump’s effort to suppress the evidence that agents found inside his personal residence and social club appeared to fall flat on Tuesday.
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The Assange Plea and Press Freedom

Assange's case will cast a long shadow over the most important kinds of journalism, not just in the United States but around the world.
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Trump’s Special Counsel Hearings: Judge Appears Concerned Over Jack Smith’s Funding

Key takeaways from Donald Trump's challenges to Special Counsel Jack Smith's authority in the classified documents case.
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 29: In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Meta logo on October 29, 2021 in Paris, France. On October 28, during the Facebook Connect virtual conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced the name change of Facebook, believing that the term Facebook was too closely linked to that of the platform of the same name, launched in 2004. It is now official, the Facebook company changes its name and becomes Meta. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)

The Oversight Board Needs Access to Facebook’s Algorithms to do its Job

Meta should cooperate with Board efforts to delve further into algorithms and provide it with access its needs for effective oversight.
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Why Trump v. Anderson Undermines State Efforts to Hijack Immigration Enforcement

Faithful application of the Supreme Court’s federalism principles should doom Texas’s attempt to seize control of national immigration policy.
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Imprisoned Writer Serving 9 Years Illustrates Vietnam’s Crackdown on Expression

Pham Doan Trang is in prison in Vietnam for her work as a writer. The U.S. can do more in trade deals to protect Vietnamese free speech.
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What Happens After Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Absolute Immunity: Mapping 3 Scenarios

Mapping different outcomes for the Court's decision on Trump's presidential immunity and the follow-on procedural pathways emerging from those scenarios.
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Meta’s Oversight Board in a Historic Election Year: Nine Key Lessons for Industry

Meta's Oversight Board released a policy paper with recommendations for Meta and other social media companies on election content moderation.
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Why No “Plain Statement Rule” Bars a President’s Prosecution for Murder

Drilling into the foundations of an idea - the 'plain statement rule' - discussed in Supreme Court oral argument on former President Trump's claims to presidential immunity.
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