Ruth Marcus

Washington, D.C., United States

WaPost associate editor/columnist. Author Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.

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Articles

Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can

1 month ago | keysnews.com | Ruth Marcus

“Hold it; this is a good one. Is everybody listening?” President Donald Trump, about to sign a sheaf of executive orders, was so jazzed up about this one he interrupted the aide explaining the document.
Government defies court, triggers constitutional crisis

1 month ago | slate.com | David Plotz |Ruth Marcus |John Dickerson

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The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Ruth Marcus

“You shall inform your clients of this immediately, and that any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States—but those people need to be returned to the United States,” Boasberg instructed the Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign over Zoom, a hearing called so hurriedly that the judge, away for the weekend without having packed his robes, apologized at the start for his informal dress.
Why Ruth Marcus Left the Washington Post

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Ruth Marcus

I walked into the Washington Post building for the first time in the summer of 1981. Past the red linotype machine that marked the entrance to the Post’s Fifteenth Street headquarters for so many years and up to the fifth-floor newsroom, a cavernous space that looked just as it’s depicted in “All the President’s Men.”I was fresh out of college and on my way to law school.
Why I Left the Washington Post

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ruth Marcus

Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejectedA columnist who has worked at The Washington Post for four decades resigned on Monday after she said the newspaper’s management decided not to run her commentary critical of owner Jeff Bezos’ new editorial policy. “It breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave,” Ruth Marcus, who has worked at the …
Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Ruth Marcus

"Hold it; this is a good one. Is everybody listening?" President Donald Trump, about to sign a sheaf of executive orders, was so jazzed up about this one he interrupted the aide explaining the document.
When the guardrails holding back law enforcement fail

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ruth Marcus

For a prosecutor to drop a case for political reasons is an appalling breach of professional ethics. That's exactly what seems to have happened in the Trump Justice Department's move to dismiss the corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. But even worse than abandoning a legitimate prosecution is knowingly launching an unwarranted one. And that's exactly what seems to have happened in a case that led a senior official in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. to resign this week.
What can the judge in the Eric Adams case do now?

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ruth Marcus

Seven prosecutors have quit in protest, but the Justice Department has finally found lawyers willing to sign a motion to dismiss the indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams. That's not the end of the matter, though, because the judge overseeing the case doesn't have to meekly rubber-stamp this request. The Adams situation ventures into uncharted legal territory, but it's hard to see the prosecution going forward.
A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ruth Marcus

Danielle Sassoon can't be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered Republican; participant in the Federalist Society; former law clerk to two conservative luminaries - federal appeals court judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III and the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.
Is Trump really going to defy the judiciary?

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ruth Marcus

The Trump administration is playing a clever game on the explosive question of whether it is preparing to defy federal court rulings. Even as President Donald Trump asserts he will "abide" by adverse decisions as he appeals them through the courts, other senior officials are explicitly insinuating he might not. How should we make sense of what is going on here? I think Trump's strategy is a two-step effort.