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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: Bad Faith in Pursuit of a White Whale
Dear Reader, I wanted to see Donald Trump’s tax returns as much as anyone else did.  But not like this. House Democrats, during their final days as the majority party, haphazardly blasted Trump’s tax returns out into the public realm, paying little regard to the law or their own prior statements in court. It was […]
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Note from Elie: DOJ & the Coming Constitutional Showdown
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Note From Elie: What Should We Make of the Biden Documents Matter?
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Note From Elie: DOJ and The Cost of Getting There Second
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Note From Elie: Legal Heroes of 2022
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Note from Elie: End Game for the January 6 Committee
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Loose Lips Sink Ships: Justice Alito and the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis
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Note from Elie: An Indictment (or Two) Won’t End Trump’s 2024 White House Bid
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Note From Elie — Trump Prosecutors: Focus on the People, Not the Label
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Note From Elie: On Antisemitism
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Note from Elie: Can a Republican Majority in Congress Derail the Justice Department?
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Note From Elie: Gaetz Skates — Prosecutorial Malpractice
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Note From Elie: Donald Trump’s Shot at History
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