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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 Quiet Unraveling of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Prosecution
Fellow prosecutors, if you ever want to piss off a judge, I highly recommend overstating your case during the earliest phases of the litigation. (I might or might not have done this a time or two during my early years.) Come out with a self-congratulatory bang, declare your case overwhelming and an all-but-guaranteed winner, and […]
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The President’s Constitutional Power to Do Stupid Things
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The Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case: Prosecution as Political Cover
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The Supreme Court Will Settle Trump’s Tariffs – But When, and How?
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Trump vs. Harvard: Asymmetric Warfare
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Letitia James Started It, but Trump’s Payback Isn’t the Answer
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Note from Elie: Trump’s Government by Hysteria
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Note from Elie: How Diddy Just Might Avoid Disaster
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Note from Elie: We’ve Got 99 Immigration Problems, but the Judge Arrests Ain’t One
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The Trump Administration’s False Flag: Combating Anti-Semitism at Harvard is Really About Thought Control
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Note from Elie: How Could the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Standoff End?
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Note from Elie: Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics – and Now He’s Got the AG To Do It
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Note from Elie: Trump’s Blacklisted Law Firms: Surrender or Fight?
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