Minutes before a New York jury convicted Donald Trump on thirty-four counts of falsifying business records, I had posted the following on social media: Many trial watchers were curious whether the law would prevail over mathematics. Here, I explain why mathematics predicted a hung jury. I also explain how legal realism theories that the Trump [...]
Can a country’s citizens nullify the criminal cases that a popular leader faces by handing them an electoral victory in the general elections? This question raises issues that could prove pivotal to the political processes in Pakistan and the US, pertaining respectively to their former prime minister Imran Khan and former President Donald Trump. Its [...]
On a writ of certiorari to the Colorado Supreme Court, the U. S. Supreme Court will likely decide whether former President Donald Trump (Trump) is disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 (Section Three) from running in the 2024 general election for engaging in insurrection on January 6, 2021. A key argument against disqualification attacks [...]
