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.

Note from Elie: Trump Pushes Courts to the Brink
Dear Reader, The Trump administration has stepped right up to the line of intentional defiance of a judicial order, perhaps even over it. We should know in the hours and days ahead whether we have arrived at a legitimate Constitutional crossroads – that’ll depend on the details – or whether the administration has adopted a […]

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

Note from Elie: The “Make Me” Presidency

Note from Elie: Donald Trump’s Assault on DOJ

Note from Elie: The Power of Pardons (To Distract)

Note from Elie: Jack Smith, Paper Tiger

Note from Elie: The Trump Hush Money Sentencing: A Felon, Unpunished

Note from Elie: TikTok’s Last Stand

Note from Elie: Your Legal Questions Answered
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