Note From Elie

Elie Honig is a contributor to CAFE and writes the weekly Note From Elie column featured in the CAFE Brief newsletter. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the SDNY.

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Letitia James Started It, but Trump’s Payback Isn’t the Answer

It’s a fact, beyond reasonable dispute, that Letitia James weaponized her official power as New York’s attorney general to pursue Donald Trump for political purposes. It’s equally clear that the Trump administration is now targeting James for payback. The downward spiral of prosecutorial retribution has begun, and there will be no winners. James started it […]

Note from Elie: Trump’s Government by Hysteria

Note from Elie: How Diddy Just Might Avoid Disaster

Note from Elie: We’ve Got 99 Immigration Problems, but the Judge Arrests Ain’t One

The Trump Administration’s False Flag: Combating Anti-Semitism at Harvard is Really About Thought Control

Note from Elie: How Could the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Standoff End?

Note from Elie: Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics – and Now He’s Got the AG To Do It

Note from Elie: Trump’s Blacklisted Law Firms: Surrender or Fight?

Note from Elie: DOJ’s Selective Do-Nothing Era

“One Unelected Judge” vs. the President

Note from Elie: Trump Pushes Courts to the Brink

Note from Elie: Eric Adams: NYC’s Mayor, DOJ’s Yo-Yo

Note from Elie: Blocked, Un-Blocked, Re-Blocked: How to Understand the Dizzying DOGE Court Rulings