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

There’s plenty of cause for alarm over the Trump administration’s enforcement of its immigration agenda during its first three-plus months back in power. But the recent arrests of two state court judges – Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin and Jose Luis Cano in New Mexico – are not part of the problem. Don’t conflate these well-founded […]

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

Note from Elie: The Nation’s Most Dangerous Prosecutor

Note from Elie: The Justice Department’s Existential Crisis Is Self-Inflicted

Note from Elie: DOJ Abandons Adams Prosecution — and Independence