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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.
Judge Sharply Questions Need for Backdoor Gag Order Against Trump in Classified Docs Case
Judge Aileen Cannon sharply questioned prosecutors about an indirect approach to restrict Donald Trump's comments on federal officials.
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.
Can Families of Mass Shooting Victims Hold Social Media Companies Responsible for Violence?
Lawsuits connecting social media companies to mass shootings could hold Silicon Valley titans legally responsible for societal harms.
The Right to a Unanimous Verdict and the Jury Instructions in People v. Trump
In The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, Justice Juan Merchan issued a set of jury instructions—55 pages in length. Merchan permitted the jury to convict based…
What to Watch for Following Historic Climate Opinion from ‘The Oceans Court’
The Tribunal issued the first-ever opinion by an international court articulating States’ obligations with respect to climate change.
Armenia and Azerbaijan in the International Court of Justice Over Nagorno-Karabakh
Learn how cases related to the conflict develop international jurisprudence, including for enforcing State accountability.
A Manhattan Jury Has Placed a Question Mark on the Trump Presidency
Through the jury instructions, the falsified records became inseparable from what prosecutors described as a “subversion of democracy.”
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.
The Just Security Podcast: A Landmark Court Opinion on the Ocean and Climate Change
The ITLOS decision is a major victory for the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law.
What to Expect in the Closings at the Trump Trial
A detailed account of the paths that the prosecution and defense can and will likely take, based on a meticulous account of the trial record.
The Just Security Podcast: Courtroom Views from Inside Trump’s New York Criminal Trial
Experts Terri Austin and Adam Klasfeld share their views from inside the courtroom in Trump's New York trial and preview what comes next.