Andrew C. McCarthy

Is the president-elect being played?

Justice Department prosecutors are mere delegates, permitted to exercise the president’s power at the president’s pleasure.

He has a good chance of getting the case reversed on appeal — but he can’t appeal until after Judge Merchan sentences him.

What will Judge Merchan do this week?

The attacks in Amsterdam were blood-boiling but not surprising.

Hopefully, the feds’ example will influence the progressive Democratic state prosecutors to stand down.

Biden should pardon Trump, as he (inevitably) pardons his son.

While I maintain faith in our system, there are danger signs.

Would Democrats use Jack Smith’s case as a trigger for invoking the insurrection disqualification at a joint session of Congress?

A Muslim illegal immigrant tried to kill an American Jew on the streets of the Windy City — and the government is caught between progressive pieties and justice.

What could happen with the pending state cases against Trump if he wins.

What happens to the cases against Trump if he retakes the White House?

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is plowing forward with a case that never should have been charged.

When asked about meetings with Democratic prosecutors and politicians during a House Judiciary Committee deposition, Wade failed to recall the details.

She needs to make the race a referendum on Trump, not the Trump administration.

The lawsuit against Governor Youngkin’s voter-roll cleanup is shameful.

Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade’s closed-door House testimony is likely to come to nothing much of note.

By attempting to renege on the deals, the administration may have taken the death penalty off the table for some of the plotters.

This is not a legal exercise, it’s a political one.

What happened to all the ‘war crimes’ and ‘terrorism’ dudgeon?

The laws of war do not outlaw victory, actually.

Any federal prosecution should await the conclusion of criminal proceedings at the state level.

Malevolent progressive prosecutors are a threat to the rights of ordinary Americans, too.

The extent of Chinese government infiltration of our governing system is appalling.

Yet there is no law-enforcement reason why Trump should be sentenced on this date.

Because there is no such rule, formally.

There is no way the case is getting very far before Election Day.

The Jewish state cannot wait to be attacked if its intelligence services detect imminent Hezbollah strikes.

David Weiss’s special-counsel appointment has always been a charade, but that doesn’t make it illegal or unconstitutional.

Lawmakers must get answers about what nuclear-weaponization activities Iran has engaged in — and what the Biden–Harris administration is doing about it.