Barbara McQuade
Barbara McQuade is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Barbara McQuade is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Latest from Barbara McQuade
Durham's Sussmann indictment is a bizarre coda for DOJ's Russia investigation
The Mueller Report spells out all the ways in which the Russia investigation was not a hoax. The only hoax is the charge contained in this indictment.
Trump's lawyers used his tactics to spread disinfo. Now they're paying for it.
The pro-Trump lawyers may still have succeeded in giving Trump and his allies the talking points they need to perpetuate the big lie.
Cuomo still thinks he can discredit Brittany Commisso and 10 other women
Cuomo's strategy appears to be to continue to deny, deflect and minimize the findings of independent investigators and individual testimonies.
Trump and the Capitol riot 'hitman' analogy
The Department of Justice has charged more than 500 defendants who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Notably absent from the list of defendants are those who organized the attack.
Trump lawyers tried to defend the indefensible in Michigan. It didn't go well.
Sidney Powell and other Team Trump attorneys got a live master class in evidence and ethics this week.
Michigan GOP shoot down Trump's big election lie — sort of
State legislators are still moving forward with laws motivated, at least in part, by the very falsehoods they just debunked.
Did DOJ target Trump enemies using improper subpoenas? We need to find out
Even if there were a legitimate basis for seeking the subpoenas, reports suggest the Justice Department failed to comply with its own policies.
Biden's Ukraine election probe focuses on Rudy Giuliani. But not how you think.
The new investigation seems focused on efforts to sway the November election in favor of Trump, but it should not be seen as a partisan effort by Biden’s DOJ.
How a Devin Nunes Twitter parody account got the best of Trump's DOJ
What else could be lurking in the remnants of Trump’s DOJ?
2020 election results for judges and lower courts matter to voters. That's a good thing.
More people have shifted their perception of what, and whom, they're voting for beyond the next president.
Barr's defense of Trump in E. Jean Carroll's suit could give presidents carte blanche
The president already has a bully pulpit. We don't need to elevate it above the law.
