The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
The End and Beginning of the Lina Khan Era
The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.
Posted inLaw and Justice
When Pam Bondi Protected Foreclosure Fraudsters
The new attorney general nominee, while serving as AG of Florida, fired the first two prosecutors to investigate the use of false evidence to kick people out of their homes.
Posted inLaw and Justice
America’s Judicial Divisions Take New Shape Under Trump
The Fifth Circuit has been the legal center of gravity for years. That’s probably going to change soon.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Look to the State Trustbusters
A federal merger challenge against two home health giants has state partners, who will have to carry the ball if the Trump administration walks away from corporate enforcement.
Posted inPolitics
Resistance 2.0
Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.
Posted inPolitics
Keith Ellison: Seeing Red
Minnesota’s attorney general on how to fight back against conservative aggression at the state level
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What Kamala Harris Could Bring to the Justice Department
Harris has a notable record on an issue where the Biden administration hasn’t distinguished itself: polluter accountability.
Posted inPolitics
Josh Shapiro Mans the Electoral Fort in Pennsylvania
Can the former vice-presidential contender hold off Republican attempts to undermine voting in the Keystone State?
