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Jordan Rubin
Deadline: Legal Blog writer
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Americans across the country from Washington to Los Angeles have made it clear that they reject the Trump administration’s notion of “law and order,” with grand jurors refusing to return indictments in a series of cases alleging assaults on law enforcement during protests.
James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges that were demanded by President Donald Trump and secured by one of his former personal lawyers, who has never prosecuted a case before.
James Comey is set to plead not guilty Wednesday morning when he’s arraigned on a two-count federal indictment in a Virginia courtroom outside Washington.
When Georgia’s top court declined last month to hear Fani Willis’ bid for reinstatement to prosecute Donald Trump and others, I noted that the rejection could effectively end the beleaguered criminal case.
There’s a legal hurdle standing in the way of the Trump administration’s vindictive prosecutions: the fact that it’s illegal to bring vindictive prosecutions.
Illinois officials are seeking relief in their state from what they called the administration’s “patently unlawful” deployment of National Guard troops.
The Supreme Court declined to review Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal, in a rejection that could keep the sex trafficker locked up for another decade if President Donald Trump doesn’t grant her clemency.
Combs was sentenced Friday in federal court in Manhattan. Federal prosecutors had asked for more than 11 years, while Combs sought what would have amounted to time served.
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration over Venezuelans fighting for temporary protected status in the U.S., over dissent from the court’s three Democratic appointees
The Supreme Court justices are coming off a busy summer, and the Republican-appointed majority is poised to move the law even further to the right this fall.
