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<title><![CDATA[Harry Litman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/36005.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Harry Litman]]></description><category domain="36005">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times]]></title>
							<link>https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just-resigned-from-the-los</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been a contributor to the Los Angeles Times op-ed page in some fashion for more than 15 years.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' For the last three years, I have been the Senior Legal Columnist, writing regular weekly columns about Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s legal troubles, the Supreme Court, and a wide range of other topics....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Prosecution Has a Michael Cohen Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-trump-prosecution-michael-cohen-193353650.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The convicted former fixer will figure prominently in the New York hush money trial. His credibility issues give the defense plenty to work with.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Be Tried for Jan 6? It's More Uncertain Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/litman-trump-tried-jan-6-201915640.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative justices seemed likely to confer broad presidential immunity from prosecution '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and in a way that would further delay any federal trial.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trial Painting a Damning Portrait of Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/litman-how-trump-s-trial-will-go-well-beyond-the-charges-to-paint-a-damning-portrait-of-him/ar-AA1nt4kC</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The scheme at the heart of the charges against Donald Trump in New York is well-known: To keep allegations of an affair with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels from becoming public, Trump is accused of agreeing to pay her $130,000, camouflaged as payments to Michael Cohen for legal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Willis' Prosecution May Be Alive, But It Isn't Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/litman-fani-willis-prosecution-of-donald-trump-may-be-alive-but-it-isn-t-well/ar-BB1jYW9c</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Comes Next After Seismic CO Decision on Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/litman-a-seismic-colorado-court-decision-just-upended-trumps-campaign-heres-what-comes-next/ar-AA1lLCuF</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has taken the country into unexplored legal territory often, but rarely so far as in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Tuesday's ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court. The decision leaves the fate of his presidential candidacy hinging on a constitutional amendment adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for a Federal Judge To Put a Gag Order on Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-federal-judge-finally-impose-230949712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Special counsel Jack Smith's team has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to rein in the former president's incendiary rhetoric. His response is legally laughable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Hunter Biden Is in Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-hunter-biden-indicted-gun-220024034.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's son wouldn't have been charged if Republicans in Congress weren't looking to advance Donald Trump's prospects by disingenuous means.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Join His GA Co-Defendants on Trial This Fall?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-trumps-co-defendants-could-195712214.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Georgia racketeering trial of Donald Trump and 18 other defendants is going to be as legally complex as it is politically charged. For an illustration of that, consider Wednesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hearing on whether two of the defendants should be allowed to sever their cases from the rest.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia Arrest Offers Glimpse of Legal Perils Trump Faces]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/litman-donald-trump-just-saw-235742727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president reported to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta for booking on charges related to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Plea Deal a Slap On the Wrist? Not Remotely]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/litman-is-the-hunter-biden-plea-deal-really-a-slap-on-the-wrist-not-remotely/ar-AA1cNY7d</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and other Republicans have criticized the Justice Department deal with President Biden's son on tax and gun charges. They're off-base as usual.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Judge Aileen Cannon Could Protect Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-five-ways-judge-aileen-220757730.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Florida jurist could impede the Department of Justice's effort to hold the former president accountable for his handling of classified records in a few ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Durham's Report Takes So Long To Say So Little]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/column-why-special-counsel-john-durham-s-report-takes-so-long-to-say-so-little/ar-AA1bhjfD</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His investigation of the FBI's investigation has yielded a lot of words and few charges. Atty. Gen. Bill Barr's appointment of the prosecutor was problematic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Underestimate the Strength of Bragg's Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/litman-dont-underestimate-the-strengths-of-alvin-braggs-case-against-donald-trump/ar-AA19wwFX</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Manhattan district attorney pointed to new evidence that the payment to Stormy Daniels was meant to break campaign finance and even tax law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only the Beginning: Trump Will Face More Indictments]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-trumps-indictment-historic-first-004340462.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg's investigation is just the beginning of Trump's legal exposure. Charges in Georgia and from Special Counsel Jack Smith also loom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dominion's Defamation Suit Tells Truth About Fox News]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-dominions-defamation-suit-keeps-214251257.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Network stars and executives such as Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch privately disparaged Donald Trump and doubted lies about Jan. 6 and the 2020 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Special Counsel Appointment Tells Us About Garland]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-special-counsel-appointment-biden-020436499.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland have no choice but to appoint a special counsel to handle the Biden documents case? That's not what the law says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Wants To Burn Down the Justice Department]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/litman-gop-wants-burn-down-003446486.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right accuses the left of Trump Derangement Syndrome, but MAGA Republicans have DOJ Derangement Syndrome '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and it's far more dangerous to the republic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raid May Signal End of Another 'Long National Nightmare']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/litman-the-mar-a-lago-search-could-signal-the-end-of-another-long-national-nightmare/ar-AA10sA4O</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The FBI's search at Trump's residence constitutes a highly dramatic investigative move against a former president, much more dramatic than anything that occurred during Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Supreme Court Decision]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/litman-terrible-horrible-no-good-180820659.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Dobbs opinion will be devastating for American lives, and it will be derided by legal scholars.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Prosecutors Are Scoring at the Chauvin Trial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-07/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-prosecution</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The prosecutors in the Chauvin trial have broken out of the paradigm that so often results in not-guilty verdicts where police are concerned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Up to Democrats in Congress to Secure Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/litman-high-court-makes-clear-110039783.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Arizona's voter restrictions. If Congress doesn't act, more Republican states will push disenfranchisement, especially of minorities, to the legal limit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Impeachment Defense Is Threadbare and Irrelevant]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/litman-trumps-impeachment-defense-threadbare-222507159.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's defense in his second impeachment is a blizzard of nonsense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz, Hawley, Trump Trying to Hijack Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-hold-cruz-hawley-trump-110030120.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political system more than the legal system must make Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Donald Trump pay for trying to hijack democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Lawsuits Won't Make a Difference]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-trumps-lawsuits-wont-difference-010327911.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As of Sunday, Trump and his lawyers were 0 for 10 in their pursuit of court-facilitated battleground victories.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Latest 'Very Good People' Are 2nd Amendment Thugs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/protest-pandemic-guns-michigan</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only in the U.S., and no other civilized democracy, does a supposed right to take up arms against a duly elected government garner respect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey's Memos Helped Save Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/James-Comey-helped-save-democracy-when-he-wrote-14400101.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OK, so former FBI Director James Comey failed to dot his i's and cross his t's in creating and retaining memos detailing his private conversations with President Donald Trump during the months between Trump's inauguration and his sacking of Comey on May 9, 2017.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Case for Executive Privilege Strained at Best]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-legal-case-for-executive-privilege-is-strained-at-best/2019/05/08/cb078eb4-4c5f-4ffe-92bd-9c2b1a0f32c6_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two determinations are of special import here.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cohen Memos Cast Dark Shadow Over Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/08/michael-cohen-memos-donald-trump-hide-scandals-get-richer-russia-column/2236949002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russian negotiator offered 'political synergy.' Translation: The Moscow Project will bring you wealth and power, which you can use to help Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Can't Tame Trump, But Supreme Court Might]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/26/donald-trump-john-roberts-obama-judges-trump-judges-court-rants-column/2108155002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Harry Litman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roberts has too much integrity to let Trump's words affect his legal judgment. But that integrity also means the court could bring Trump to heel.]]></description>
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