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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/20/2022
  

  Law Profs: First Amendment Hurdles to Trump Prosecution Real, Not Insurmountable

  by Alan Z. Rozenshtein and Jed Shugerman

  The defense that Trump's speech about a stolen election, even if deliberately untruthful, constitutes protected political speech is plausible, but prosecutors can situate the remarks in the context of other actions to overturn the election. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/13/2022
  

  The Presidents and Ex-Presidents who have been Subpoenaed Before Trump

  by Gillian Brockell

  While a Congressional subpoena delivered to a president is unusual, it's not unprecedented. But the past is little guide to how Donald Trump will respond to a call to appear before the January 6th committee.  

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• 6/12/2022
  

  Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Conspiracy Is Easy to Prove

  by James D. Zirin

  A veteran prosecutor explains that the legal standards for conspiracy put Trump in the crosshairs. Whether he faces consequences for the attempted coup, however, is a question of politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  10/8/19
  

  The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive

  by Ronald Radosh

  The American right has advanced nutty conspiracy theories for decades. But the one we’re about to see play out will make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6-16-18
  

  Trump uses IG report to spread 'deep state' conspiracy

  by Julian Zelizer

  Trump has done more than anyone else to bring the fringe conspiracy concept of a "deep state" into the mainstream, with the help of his son Donald Jr.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  

  The Untold Miracle of Lincoln’s Last Day on Earth

  by Michael Daly

  One hundred fifty years ago to the day, the president welcomed a hungry, desperate soldier’s wife into the White House. Seven hours later, he would be assassinated.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-13-15
  

  For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers

  Mr. Alford’s book, published by Oxford University Press, is already being hailed as an important contribution, with the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer praising it as “so deeply researched and persuasively argued that it should stand as the standard portrait for years.”

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• 4-14-15
  

  Lincoln’s Assassination – and Caesar’s

  by Barry Strauss

  Both Lincoln and his assassin misread the lessons of history.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  11-3-14
  

  America’s conspiracy mania: Why Ebola and 9/11 truthers reflect a tortured history

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  From 9/11 to McCarthyism, we have a long history of conspiracy theories -- and government acts have encouraged them.

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• SOURCE: Rasmussen Reports
  7-21-14
  

  Have We Got A Conspiracy for You - 9/11? JFK? Obama's Citizenship?

  On a list of some of the world’s best-known conspiracy theories, Americans are most likely to believe the one about JFK‘s assassination.