Live TV

Rachel Maddow

Morning Joe

Deadline: White House

Our Shows

Opinion

Newsletters

Community

Explore

Dennis Aftergut

former federal prosecutor

Dennis Aftergut is a former federal prosecutor, the former chief assistant city attorney in San Francisco and currently counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy. He signed LDAD’s December 2021 and States United Democracy Center’s October 2021 bar disciplinary complaints against John Eastman. 

Latest from

Dennis Aftergut

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Supreme Court’s Idaho emergency abortion ruling is not a victory

Donald Trump raises his fist

The Supreme Court’s radical majority rejected three ways to avoid an immunity disaster

Image: law legal court sketch michael cohen doanld trump

The Trump jury needed to hear from Michael Cohen — and so far he’s delivered

Image: US-JUSTICE-SUPREME-COURT-GROUP-PHOTO

The Supreme Court’s legitimacy depends on a speedy ruling in the Trump immunity case

John Eastman listens during a hearing in Atlanta

Why MAGA lawyer John Eastman’s disbarment ruling is bad news for Trump

politics political politicians

Why President Joe Biden should be feeling good about a rematch with Donald Trump

Donald Trump during his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York City on Oct. 24, 2023.

No, SCOTUS doesn’t have to prioritize politics in Trump’s Colorado ballot case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Why Alvin Bragg’s hush money case is an excellent Plan B for holding Trump accountable

israel idf military vehicles israeli flag

Why canceling its ground invasion could help Israel defeat Hamas

People protest Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30 days on Sept. 12, 2023.

New Mexico’s governor has a desperate problem. But her solution will backfire.