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And, he’s back.  Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election.  He won the Electoral College, and, for the first time in his three presidential runs, he won the popular vote as well.  Most voting…

Partner William Pittard joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this week.  The hour-long, live television appearance focused on the role of the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, particularly in ongoing disputes…

At oral argument this week, a seemingly divided D.C. Circuit panel appeared poised to uphold a District Court injunction against the enforcement of certain Judicial Branch restrictions on the political speech of many of…

Predicting the investigations of an incoming Congress is fraught.  Most obviously, congressional investigations generally track the crises of the day, and the coming crises themselves are not obvious.  Our last Congress illustrates the point. …

In the run-up to the recent presidential election, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was back in the news. This time it was about his relationship with the Chinese company CEFC China Energy. Now that…

One hundred years or so ago, before the age of the corona, we cared a lot about whether a President, and perhaps particularly a “total” authority President, not only could ignore a congressional subpoena…

A government official makes a putative public policy decision but actually does so for political reasons. No, I am not talking about the presidential impeachment saga. I am talking about Bridgegate, the 2014 scandal…

During last week’s impeachment hearings, Ambassador Taylor asserted that an aide overheard a discussion with President Trump regarding his alleged request urging the Ukrainian government to open investigations into the Biden family and any…

Fake news. It’s a buzzword that excites people all over the political spectrum. But there’s one thing we’ve seen in our practice that hasn’t received attention: What do you do when fake news is…

Congressional subpoenas are extraordinarily powerful.  Or they’re paper tigers. The reality:  It depends a lot on the recipient. Against a private party, and particularly a public company, a congressional subpoena remains extraordinarily coercive.  Against…

The #MeToo movement led to calls on Congress to enact legislative change.  Reformers demanded change that would encourage the reporting of sexual assaults, would deter assaults in the first instance, and would better protect…