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2 days ago | 
staytuned.substack.com | Preet Bharara |Rachel E. Barkow |Jake Kaplan
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -10:42Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. On this week’s Insider episode, Preet is joined by Rachel Barkow, CAFE Contributor and professor at NYU Law School, while Joyce is out.
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1 week ago | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Late last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan as she was walking into her courthouse. Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against the judge alleging that six days prior to her arrest, on April 18, she obstructed justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1505, and that she concealed a person from arrest in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1071.
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2 months ago | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,Trump and Musk are on a self-declared mission to destroy the bureaucracy and the âdeep state,â and one battle in that war is their quest to get rid of so-called independent agencies. These are agencies created by Congress to have a degree of independence from immediate partisan pressures so that they can create more stable policies based on expertise instead of political whims.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,As a scholar who has written a great deal about clemency and the Presidentâs pardon power over the past two decades, I can say with some authority that this month is the worst ever when it comes to the exercise of that power. Itâs not just the fact that so many grants were troublesome on the merits, as Preet and Joyce and so many others have detailed.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Rachel E. Barkow |Mark Osler
Politics / December 4, 2024 Hunter Biden and the Future of ClemencyBiden knows there is a better way to use it—other people’s children also deserve mercy. Ad Policy A November 29, 2024 photo shows US President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts on November 29, 2024.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy set out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. DOGE will be a newly created body in the Trump Administration that is supposed to, in the words of Musk and Ramaswamy, “cut the federal government down to size.” The first order of business should be for one of them to fire the other because it would seem the model of inefficiency to have two people at the helm.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,In the summer of 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests, it looked like America might be turning a page on its approach to crime and punishment. Calls to âDefund the Policeâ rang out from across the country, including from elected officials and those running for office. Many jurisdictions passed policing reforms and other progressive legislation related to criminal law.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,The administration of criminal law in America is not perfect. Far from it. Hundreds of people have been exonerated after being convicted and often serving decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. A huge proportion of the exonerees are people of color. Almost 84% of the people exonerated last year were people of color, and nearly 61% were Black. Exonerations have taken place all across the country and in a variety of cases, including capital cases.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,Those of you following the criminal case against Donald Trump in Manhattan for falsifying business records may have had September 18 circled on your calendar as the date to watch. That was originally the date on which Trump was to be sentenced. On Friday, September 6, however, Judge Juan Merchan granted Trump’s request to adjourn the sentencing until after the 2024 presidential election.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
cafe.com | Rachel E. Barkow
Dear Reader,When Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate, he won universal praise from progressives and moderates in the Democratic party.
