Richard Epstein analyzes the major legal plot lines attending the presidential transition: The Trump campaign’s frantic efforts to keep the president’s prospects alive in court, the possibility of a raft of last-minute presidential pardons, and the decision by Attorney General William Barr to transform U.S. Attorney John Durham — currently investigating the origins of the Russia probe — into a special counsel.
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I chaired Britain’s All-Party-Parliamentary Commission Report on the October 7 massacres, which detailed each of the 1,182 deaths that took place that day. It became very clear to me while doing that, and also while visiting kibbutzim and the Nova Festival site in southern Israel, that Hamas had very deliberately fostered the sheer frenzy that was seen during its 48-hour-long killing spree on October 7 and 8, 2023.
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The message of his principled stand is to hold leaders accountable—but also ourselves.
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The fog of war—and a young man’s memory—on the field where the Revolution began.
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