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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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The First Amendment Doesn’t Care If Trump Gets Bad Press
When it comes to the First Amendment, Vice-President JD Vance is either dumb or full of crap, and he’s not dumb. Even as right-wing media outlets and legal experts have lambasted Donald Trump’s smashingly unconstitutional White House press ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, Vance and other bad-faith sycophants have argued that government policing […]
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Why the Supreme Court Slapped Down Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules
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Trump’s Canada Tariffs are Legally Vulnerable
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DOJ Fall Preview: Even More Spectacular Failure Ahead
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The Ballroom May Be Built Before the Law Catches Up
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Trump’s Menacing But Dumb Plan to Break the Midterms
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Jeanine Pirro’s Crucible
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Anthony Fauci Can Take the Fifth
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Trump’s Payback Against Jack Smith Is Off to a Bad Start
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Can Trump’s DOJ Really Force New York Times Journalists to Reveal Their Sources?
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Todd Blanche Has Run Wild with DOJ; Now He Must Answer For It
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The Reflecting Pool Prosecution Is Already Leaking
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Trump Lost Big in the Supreme Court – and Conservatives Swing the Balance Against Him
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