Jacqueline Thomsen

February 22, 2021 | National Law Journal

"My job is to protect the Department of Justice and its employees in going about their job and doing the right thing under the facts and the law," Garland said.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

February 19, 2021 | National Law Journal

"When any counsel seeks to target processes at the heart of our democracy, the committee may well conclude that they are required to act with far more diligence and good faith than existed here," the judge said.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

February 17, 2021 | National Law Journal

The Ku Klux Klan Act is featured in recent lawsuits against Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, as well as a case against the organizers of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2018.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

7 minute read

February 17, 2021 | National Law Journal

"What the subpoena power gave us was the ability to call the bluff of some folks who had indicated a potential openness to testify," Kramer Levin's Barry Berke said of the debate on whether to call witnesses in Trump's second impeachment trial.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

12 minute read

February 16, 2021 | National Law Journal

Attorneys with Cohen Milstein and the NAACP allege the Jan. 6 riots were "the intended and foreseeable culmination of a carefully coordinated campaign to interfere with the legal process required to confirm the tally of votes cast in the Electoral College."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

February 13, 2021 | National Law Journal

The constitutional arguments made by Trump's defense counsel were largely panned, but most Senate Republicans still voted to acquit the former president.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

February 12, 2021 | National Law Journal

Some lawyers said Friday's arguments went better for Trump's attorneys than opening statements, but they still missed key opportunities to make their case.

By Nate Robson | Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

February 12, 2021 | National Law Journal

The lawyer, Michael van der Veen, called the letter from nearly 150 constitutional scholars "an outrageous attempt to intimidate Mr. Trump's lawyers."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

February 12, 2021 | National Law Journal

Tatel's semiretirement and Judge Merrick Garland's expected confirmation as attorney general provides President Joe Biden with the opportunity to fill two seats on the influential appeals court early in his term.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

February 10, 2021 | National Law Journal

Several groups had requested court proceedings for those charged in the Jan. 6 events be livestreamed because "the American people should be able to see the wheels of justice in motion and in real time."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read