Andrew Weissmann

1 week ago | thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |Andrew Weissmann

Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider trading scheme. After the markets closed, he joked with *the* Charles Schwab about how the financier had made $2.5 billion in trades that day. Meanwhile, Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate two former officials he regards as enemies—this comes on the heels of his efforts to intimidate law firms from taking on clients who oppose him.

2 months ago | thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |Andrew Weissmann

Unlike the cowardly Republican senators who are rolling over in the face of Kash Patel's bald-faced lies, the men and women of the Justice Department are taking their oaths of office seriously by refusing to comply with a blatantly political order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Meanwhile, Trump is just over the moon with Vladimir Putin—even though his army is performing quite poorly on the battlefield against Ukraine.

Dec 19, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger |Andrew Weissmann

The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it still has the power to wound. How else to explain the extraordinary remarks of the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, this week in which he revealed how stung he’d been by an editorial in the Times? You’d think Russia’s elite had enough problems on their hands at the moment. Roaring inflation and interest rates. Sanctions. Labour shortages. The spiralling cost of war. The mounting casualties in Ukraine.

Oct 15, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Andrew Weissmann |Ryan Goodman

Another major factual revelation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, another attempt to discredit him without ever addressing the new facts. But this time the attacks come not just from the defendant, but from lawyers who provide former president Donald Trump an undeserved veneer of credibility. The critics take aim at the mere fact that in the DC election subversion criminal case, Smith filed a legal brief which, with court approval, was made public.

Jul 17, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Andrew Weissmann

The Supreme Court’s presidential criminal immunity decision in Trump v. United States  suffers from shallow reasoning, lack of historical support, and distortion of legal precedent. This piece addresses three major flaws in the decision. All three derive from the Court’s failure to examine and differentiate the source and scope of presidential power — whether constitutionally or congressionally derived and, where the former, whether exclusively committed to the president or not.