Op-Eds Archive

Eisen/Stanton/Wertheimer In Salon: How Trump’s Own Lawyer May Have Cooked Trump’s Goose In Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

There was already a strong case against former President Donald Trump in the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago documents case, but if Trump was in trouble before, […]

Eisen/Joscelyn/Wertheimer In The Hill: House Republicans Continue GOP’s Affront To Law Enforcement

On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) and other lawmakers visited Jan. 6 defendants who are currently incarcerated in the DC jail, proclaiming them to be victims […]

Eisen/Wertheimer/Stanton On MSNBC: The House GOP’s Manhattan DA Meddling Is Ugly, Partisan, And Potentially Unlawful

y District Attorney Alvin Bragg “should hold firm and proceed with his charges, come what may.” “With the unprecedented indictment of a former President likely imminent, we […]

Eisen/Wertheimer In Slate: Can Georgia Republicans Really Fire A Prosecutor For Indicting Trump?

“Having tried and failed to interfere in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump’s allies are now attempting to interfere with the ongoing grand jury investigation […]

Eisen & Wertheimer Op-Ed On CNN: Georgia Grand Juror’s Tacky Media Tour Won’t Trash The Case

Emily Kohrs, the Georgia special grand jury foreperson in the Trump investigation who made the media rounds this week “won’t win any prizes for grand […]

Eisen, Watt, & Wertheimer On Just Security: “Speech Or Debate” Immunity Will Not Protect Rep. Scott Perry’s Phone

On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), whose activities are being investigated as part of the Justice […]

Eisen, Perry, & Wertheimer: Trump’s Hush Money Is News Again. Here’s Why We Should Care.

A criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump being restarted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and discussed in a new book by one of his former prosecutors, […]

Op-Ed: Jim Jordan Showed On His First Day How Unfit He Is To Lead The House Judiciary Committee

This week, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) gaveled in the first hearing in what he promised will be a crusade against the Biden Administration: “[W]e won’t […]

Pence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols

This op-ed appeared in Newsweek. Pence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols By: Norman Eisen, Joshua Stanton, and Fred Wertheimer  This week, we […]

Eisen, Perry, Wertheimer In The New York Times: The Jan. 6 Committee Just Made History. Here’s What That Means For Prosecutors.

Given the facts that were revealed by the House January 6th Committee through its 18-month investigation, “these hearings had to end with criminal referrals against […]