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Jordan Rubin
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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.
This week’s Deadline: Legal Newsletter highlights the battle over voting rights, the death penalty, Alex Jones’ rejection, a possible Trump cameo and more.
“Can a case be brought to a state bar against Pam Bondi and/or Lindsey Halligan for unethical behavior or corruption? Can they be disciplined or disbarred for bringing politically motivated cases against Trump’s enemies?”
Protester Sidney Reid was acquitted in Washington, D.C., on Thursday of a misdemeanor charge after grand jurors declined to approve a felony indictment against her a shocking three times.
The Supreme Court is on the verge of further limiting voting rights, thanks in part to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s unfounded insistence that considering race can only be legal for a certain amount of time into the future — regardless of what the law and the Constitution say
The justices will hear oral argument Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could further gut the landmark law that the Roberts-led court has already weakened.
It’s early yet in the James Comey case, but the former FBI director got a quick win on a procedural issue that reinforces the presiding judge’s refusal to allow needless delay in the criminal case against the Donald Trump critic brought by a Trump-installed prosecutor.
Heading into James Comey’s arraignment Wednesday, the question wasn’t whether the former FBI director would plead guilty or not guilty at this early stage — he did the latter, naturally — but rather what we would learn about how the case’s next steps would unfold
