Barbara McQuade

MSNBC Columnist

Barbara McQuade is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is the author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America," as well as 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 the author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America," as well as a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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Jeanine Pirro used to be a prosecutor. Trump will make her a weapon.

Only in the Trump administration is the appointment of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro a better option for U.S. attorney of the District of Columbia — barely.
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Trump used birthright citizenship as an excuse for another presidential power grab

President Donald Trump won big Friday in the Supreme Court birthright citizenship case, with Amy Coney Barrett's decision limiting nationwide injunctions.
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Trump taps extreme Jan. 6 apologist for key watchdog role. That won't end well.

President Donald Trump nominated far-right podcast host Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in bizarre pick Senate Republicans must kill.
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Donald Trump's failed U.S. attorney pick may have just found his true calling

After flaming out as President Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney nominee, lawyer Ed Martin has a new job with Pam Bondi doing the thing that got James Comey fired.
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Trump isn't just punishing law firms — he's attempting to rewrite history

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting law firm Susman Godfried, which represented Dominion against Fox News. It's by design.
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Why judges keep rejecting Trump's Alien Enemies Act argument

Trump is deporting Venezuelan immigrants using the Alien Enemies Act but judges like Judge James Boasberg and the D.C. Court of Appeals are ruling against him.
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The top D.C. prosecutor just called himself Trump's lawyer. That's a problem.

The U.S. Attorney’s X account posted a statement from Edward R. Martin, Jr. calling himself President Donald Trump's lawyer and wading into the AP lawsuit.
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JD Vance throws down a high-risk gauntlet for America's judiciary

JD Vance's judicial branch challenge risks a constitutional crisis as he criticizes judges willing to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE illegal actions.
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The FBI's terrorism designation in New Orleans is much more than a symbolic act

FBI’s quick decision to investigate the New Orleans truck ramming on Bourbon Street as a terror attack is a teachable moment for U.S. senators — and Kash Patel.
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The case for charging Luigi Mangione with terrorism

On Tuesday, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged Luigi Mangione in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Here's why a terrorism charge is warranted.
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How Jack Smith quietly ensured Trump’s Jan. 6 case isn’t actually going anywhere

Jack Smith filed a motion with the trial court in the District of Columbia to dismiss the Jan. 6 election interference case against Donald Trump on Monday.
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