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Jess Bravin
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Senior special writer, The Wall Street Journal. Author, "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay"; "Squeaky: The Life & Times of Lynette Alice Fromme." Founder: Raymond Chandler Square, L.A. City Historic-Cultural Monument No. 597.
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Jess Bravin @jessbravin.bsky.social · Sep 5
50 Years Ago Today: Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme pointed a loaded .45 at President Ford; my book, "Squeaky," tells the incredible story of a life gone wrong: www.amazon.com/Squeaky-Time...
Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme
Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme - Kindle edition by Bravin, Jess. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme.
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For @washingtonpost.com proprietor Jeff Bezos, perspective from Charles Foster Kane: youtu.be/tzhb3U2cONs?...
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Long overdue recognition for John Carpenter's "The Thing."
January 29, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Kristen Waggoner, conservative Christian legal crusader, aims to anchor Trump-era gains in constitutional bedrock www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... w/Maggie Severns
Kristen Waggoner’s Legal Crusade for Conservative Christian Values
Kristen Waggoner’s Legal Crusade for Conservative Christian Values
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December 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Trump to continue deploying National Guard units on the streets of Washington, D.C., at least temporarily www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ
Appeals Court Allows Trump’s National Guard Deployment in D.C.
The city argued that the president violated home-rule laws by sending the military onto the capital’s streets.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The Wall Street Journal published a Page One story on the inmates' treatment Oct. 10: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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In 2018, we flagged Humphrey's Executor as a restraint on presidential power SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh was determined to overrule. He gets his chance today, when the Court hears Trump v. Slaughter www.wsj.com/articles/the...
The Case That Shaped Brett Kavanaugh’s Thinking on Presidential Power
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has repeatedly cited a 1935 case, in which the court rejected President Roosevelt’s bid to fire an appointee of President Hoover, as a misguided dilution of the p...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard to bolster crime-fighting in Washington violates several laws www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... via @wsj.com
Judge Rules National Guard Deployment in Washington, D.C., Was Unlawful
The order, which was put on hold until Dec. 11, is a setback to the president’s effort to use the guard in the nation’s capital.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Justice Gorsuch to co-author children’s book about the Declaration of Independence www.kcra.com/article/gors...
Justice Gorsuch to co-author children’s book about the Declaration of Independence
Justice Neil Gorsuch said Thursday he will co-author a children’s book next year focused on the Declaration of Independence, a departure from the headier book the conservative jurist authored last yea...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"A very cautious man": Chief Justice Roberts faces a defining challenge from as he enters his third decade leading the Supreme Court www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @wsj.com
Chief Justice Roberts Faces Career-Defining Decision on Trump
The Supreme Court’s tariff case comes as the chief justice is under pressure from the president, the public and other judges.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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President Trump’s global tariffs ran headlong into a skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday www.wsj.com/politics/pol... w/@GavinBade
Trump’s Tough Day at Supreme Court Puts Tariffs in Jeopardy
The prospect of a loss by the administration raises questions about the president’s alternatives—and what happens to money that has already been collected.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Tariffs at SCOTUS: Trump’s Position Appears to Be on the Ropes www.wsj.com/livecoverage... via @wsj
Trump’s Position Appears to Be on the Ropes
President Trump’s case for tariffs looked in trouble after the first hour of argument, after justices across the ideological spectrum expressed skepticism, if not incredulity, of his claim that a 1977...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The 50-Year-Old Ruling That Could Matter for the Tariffs Case www.wsj.com/livecoverage... Follow Our Live Team Coverage:
The 50-Year-Old Ruling That Could Matter for the Tariffs Case
There are no prior court decisions addressing whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or Ieepa, the 1977 law Trump invoked, gives the president unilateral power to impose tariffs. The...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A federal appeals court will allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Ore., despite objections from state and local officials www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @wsj.com
Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration to Deploy National Guard in Portland
The decision lifts a temporary order that had stopped the dispatch of state Guard members to the Oregon city in response to protests.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Following @princeton.edu, @georgetownuni.bsky.social selects a former law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens as its president. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.
Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”
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October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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War Resister: @WSJ Stylebook conscientiously objects to bellicose rebranding of DoD. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Vol. 38, No. 8: Department of War
In the latest Wall Street Journal stylebook bulletin, a note on the revival of an old name for what is still officially the Defense Department.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Illinois officials sued to stop Trump from deploying National Guard forces to Chicago wsj.com/us-news/illi...
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Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s National Guard Deployment
The lawsuit, filed by the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago, comes as the administration’s confrontation with Democratic-led states escalated nationwide.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Mendocino journalist @mattlafever.bsky.social draws on my first book, SQUEAKY, to reconstruct the Manson Family's failed plot to expand to Northern California. www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a... @sfgate.com
Manson Family's plot to expand to Northern Calif. may have ended in murder
Northern California's fog and forests still carry Manson's shadow.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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LISTEN: Are Trump’s Lethal Attacks on Drug Boats Legal? I join Vera Bergengruen and host Caitlin McCabe WSJ's What's News podcast to discuss the president's militarization of a criminal law problem. www.wsj.com/podcasts/wha...
Are Trump’s Lethal Attacks on Drug Boats Legal? - What’s News - WSJ Podcasts
In the past month, the Trump administration has ordered a trio of military attacks against boats suspected to be transporting drugs from South America to the U.S. However, little information has been ...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Comey Case Explained: The Trump administration charged the former FBI director with making a false statement and obstruction when he testified in 2020 about testimony he gave in 2017 regarding a @WSJ story published in October 2016. A closer look: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
What to Know About the Criminal Case Against James Comey
Prosecutors allege the former FBI director lied to Congress, but legal experts say there are significant hurdles to overcome.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Farewell to a great writer and even better human being whose columns helped so many.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 24
Jonathan Clements, a longtime WSJ columnist who penned more than 1,000 personal-finance columns and was a favorite of readers, has died. He was 62.

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September 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Disarray continues at the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission @America250, which fired its exec director, a 25-year-old ex-Fox News producer the White House had recommended, for a slew of alleged improper actions www.wsj.com/politics/pol... w/@meridithmcgraw
Exclusive | Group Organizing America’s 250th Birthday Fires Executive Director
A bipartisan commission terminated Ariel Abergel after an Instagram post related to Charlie Kirk, he said.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Supreme Court to reconsider limits Congress has imposed on the president’s power to fire top officials www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... w/@WheelerLydia
Supreme Court to Reconsider Limits on President’s Power to Fire Top Officials
The justices for now have allowed Trump to remove the FTC’s last remaining Democratic commissioner.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Listen 🎧: President Trump says he’s ready to order more National Guard troops to American cities. Natalie Andrews and I discuss the nation’s mixed reactions and possible legal and political futures on @wsj.com's What's News podcast: on.wsj.com/3o375VH
WSJ What’s News
What's News brings you the biggest news of the day, from business and finance to global and political developments that move markets. Get caught up in minutes twice a day on weekdays, then take a step...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let it remove Fed governor Lisa Cook from the central bank’s board while a lawsuit challenging the president’s effort to fire her proceeds www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @wsj.com
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of Fed Governor Lisa Cook
The emergency request comes after a lower court rejected the administration’s bid to lift an order stopping the president from removing Lisa Cook from her post.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM