Must-read Gerstein. … Continue reading
Category Archives: John Edwards
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Carrie Johnson reports for NPR. … Continue reading
McClatchy reports. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Lyle Denniston writes for the National Constitution Center. … Continue reading
Very interesting Main Justice report. … Continue reading
This analysis will appear in the Los Angeles Times. … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
Political Wire considers. … Continue reading
Must-read Gerstein, who also notes: “NBC reported Friday morning that jurors split 8-4 for Edwards on the unresolved campaign finance charges and that only one juror favored convicting Edwards on a charge that he caused the filing of false reports … Continue reading
The Guardian (U.K.) reports. … Continue reading
U.S. News reports. … Continue reading
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Here. MORE: Another High-Profile Failure for a Justice Dept. Watchdog … Continue reading
The News and Observer reports. … Continue reading
The CS Monitor reports. … Continue reading
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NPR reports. … Continue reading
Must-read Emily Bazelon on John Edwards. … Continue reading
So reports ABC News. … Continue reading
The jury has reached a verdict. Stand by. UPDATE: Jury Says It Can Reach Verdict on Only One Count of John Edwards Indictment So still, stand by. … Continue reading
Allison Hayward has written this oped for Politico. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
Bizarre: “Something exceedingly strange is happening at the John Edwards trial: all four alternate jurors dressed in red shirts Friday. They each wore bright yellow the day before. Coincidence? Few here think so. he demeanor of the alternate jurors and … Continue reading
The CS Monitor reports. … Continue reading
But don’t expect a verdict before Memorial Day. … Continue reading
The News and Observer reports. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
The New York Times offers this news analysis as we await the John Edwards verdict. The article discusses a point, which I make more fully in this Slate piece, tying the Edwards prosecution to those of Tom DeLay and Don … Continue reading
See here. I have suggested that Edwards will have strong grounds for appeal if he is convicted, based upon the jury instructions, the exclusion of testimony from former FEC commissioners, as well as a potential misunderstanding by the judge of … Continue reading
“This case is so far off the rails, it literally makes me angry.” –Ken Gross, quoted in a Bloomberg BNA article, “Prosecution of Edwards Highlights Gaps Between DOJ, FEC on Campaign Finance Law.” … Continue reading
Here. Second day of deliberations over. … Continue reading
CBS News reports. … Continue reading
The CS Monitor reports. The jury gets the case Friday morning. … Continue reading
The latest from the trial. From the second hand reports I’ve heard from the trial, this appears to be a sound strategy. Very little of the prosecution case focused on whether Edwards had the specific intent to violate campaign finance … Continue reading
Politico: “Defense lawyers for former Sen. John Edwards contend that the Justice Department set aside one of its standing policies in campaign finance cases in order to seek Edwards’s indictment on the charges he’s currently on trial for in federal … Continue reading
The latest: “Two witnesses with a wealth of knowledge about campaign finance laws testified in the John Edwards trial Monday that the $900,000 at the heart of the case went to personal expenses for the candidate – and therefore should … Continue reading
Must-read Gerstein. … Continue reading
AP: “- A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.” … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein reports. Edwards is apparently not impressed with the prosecutors’ case. … Continue reading
Important Scott Horton piece at Harper‘s: The DOJ’s public-integrity prosecutions have careened in recent years from one humiliation to the next, with little thought for the damage the department is doing to the law or to its own reputation. First … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein reports from the Edwards trial. … Continue reading
Allen Dickerson writes at Campaigns & Elections. … Continue reading
MSNBC reports. … Continue reading
The National Journal reports. … Continue reading
PBS News Hour reports. … Continue reading
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Via Political Wire comes this Walter Shapiro TNR piece suggesting the prosecution will prove the Bunny Mellon did not know about the Edwards affair when she gave the money to Edwards. Shapiro asks: “If Bunny Mellon did not know about … Continue reading