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: How Could the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Standoff End?

“This is a path of perfect lawlessness.” That’s not some online Resistance warrior. Those are the words of Judge Harvie Wilkinson. A Reagan appointee, he is arguably the single most revered federal appellate judge of his generation in the conservative legal and political universe. This is the same jurist who ruled in 2002 that the […]

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

Note from Elie: The “Make Me” Presidency

Note from Elie: Donald Trump’s Assault on DOJ