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Jan 23, 2025 | 
msn.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Joyce White Vance
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
slate.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Joyce White Vance
Skip to the content A Favorite of Modern Audiences Jurisprudence Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense has continued to barrel toward confirmation, additional stream of details of his patent unfitness for office be damned.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
contrarian.substack.com | Mimi Rocah
For DOJ alums, anyone who cares about the actual independence of the DOJ from improper influence from a President, or anyone with a political agenda, there was a lot that Pam Bondi— Trump’s nominee to be Attorney General of the United States—got right at today’s hearing. She sounded a lot like Republican and Democratic nominees of the past who similarly pledged to uphold the independence of the DOJ at their hearings.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
slate.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Joyce White Vance
Jurisprudence Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In a new interview with Adam Wren in Politico Playbook, Mike Davis, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted legal advisers and the man who considers himself Trump’s “Viceroy,” explained his strategy for confirming Fox News correspondent Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
slate.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Joyce White Vance
Jurisprudence Here we go again. If you’re experiencing alarming levels of déjà vu this week with the debate over Matt Gaetz’s fitness to run the DOJ, it’s not just you. We have seen this play before. Women make credible allegations of sexual misconduct or harassment against a man who has been nominated for a powerful position. The allegations spark an outcry. There is a bruising public airing of the claims, followed by a backlash and claims of a witch hunt.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Joyce White Vance
Here we go again. If you’re experiencing alarming levels of déjà vu this week with the debate over Matt Gaetz’s fitness to run the DOJ, it’s not just you. We have seen this play before. Women make credible allegations of sexual misconduct or harassment against a man who has been nominated for a powerful position. The allegations spark an outcry. There is a bruising public airing of the claims, followed by a backlash and claims of a witch hunt.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
slate.com | Mimi Rocah
Something significant happened last week on the long road toward justice for the victims of the horrific Oct. 7 attacks: The Department of Justice unsealed terrorism-related charges against six of Hamas’ senior leaders most responsible for planning, supporting, and perpetrating the attacks that resulted in the brutal murders of more than a thousand innocent civilians in Israel, including more than 40 American citizens.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Mimi Rocah
The Democratic National Convention last month was more than a showcase of party values; it was a reaffirmation of the Democratic Party’s steadfast support for Israel amid rising extremism.
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) last month was a hopeful burst of positivity, democracy, and patriotism.
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Mimi Rocah
Imagine that your daughter or sister has vanished. The last words you heard from her, more than one hundred days ago early in the morning of Oct. 7, were in a voice message, saying captors had caught her.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah
On October 7, Hamas weaponized brutal sexual violence against women and girls in Israel. The silence, denialism, and excuses around these atrocities are terrifying to us as women and as lawyers who have fought for victims of sexual violence throughout our careers.
