Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. Donald Trump still has his fans. Photograph along Washington Road in Upper Saint Clair, Pennsylvania, by author, April 28, 2024.
Fig. 2. Cartoon by Ben Jennings, January 24, 2024, via the Guardian,[1] fair use.
Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney, and Erica Orden, “Supreme Court will take up Trump’s eligibility to run for president,” Politico, January 5, 2024, https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/05/trump-supreme-court-14th-amendment-eligibility-00134133
Chris Geidner, “D.C. Circuit judges extremely skeptical of Trump’s post-presidential immunity claim,” Law Dork, January 9, 2024, https://www.lawdork.com/p/dc-circuit-trump-immunity-arguments
George T. Conway, III, “Trump’s Lawyer Walked Into a Trap,” Atlantic, January 10, 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/trump-immunity-hearing-2020-election/677072/
Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, and Devan Cole, “Federal appeals court lets Trump gag order stand in federal January 6 case,” CNN, January 23, 2024, https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/politics/gag-order-trump-appeals-court-en-banc/index.html
Ben Jennings, “Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s progress along the Republican nomination trail – cartoon,” Guardian, January 24, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/24/ben-jennings-on-donald-trumps-progress-along-the-republican-nomination-trail-cartoon
Chris Geidner, “FAQ: Trump, the 14th Amendment, and Thursday’s SCOTUS arguments,” Law Dork, February 5, 2024, https://www.lawdork.com/p/faq-trump-14th-amendment-scotus
Ankush Khardori, “What Happens, Exactly, If Trump Is Sentenced to Prison?” New York, February 5, 2024, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-happens-exactly-if-trump-is-sentenced-to-prison.html
George T. Conway, III, “An Airtight Ruling Against Trump,” Atlantic, February 6, 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/dc-circuit-court-ruling-on-trump-immunity/677367/
Rachel Weiner, “Trump has no immunity from Jan. 6 prosecution, appeals court rules,” Washington Post, February 6, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/06/trump-jan-6-immunity-appeal-denied/
Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage, “Takeaways From the Trump Ballot Case,” New York Times, February 8, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-ballot-takeaways.html
Chris Geidner, “The Supreme Court must fully resolve Trump disqualification case now to avert ‘chaos,’” Law Dork, February 9, 2024, https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-must-fully-resolve-sec-3-case
Lukas I. Alpert, “Trump is backed further into a financial corner after losing control of his company,” MarketWatch, February 16, 2024, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-backed-further-into-a-financial-corner-after-losing-control-of-his-company-85aa467e
Lloyd Green, “Trump, the ‘law-and-order’ candidate, is an adjudicated fraudster,” Guardian, February 16, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/donald-trump-organization-legal-woes
John Fritze, “Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial,” CNN, February 28, 2024, https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/trump-supreme-court-immunity/index.html
Matt Stieb, “Did the Supreme Court Fight Over Delaying Trump’s Trial?” New York, February 29, 2024, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/understanding-the-supreme-court-decision-over-trump-immunity.html
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, “Want Some Good News? Another State Has Booted Trump From the Ballot,” New Republic, February 29, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/179400/good-news-illinois-trump-ballot
Greg Sargent, “Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon,” New Republic, March 1, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/article/179438/liz-cheney-supreme-court-trump-trial-delay-dems-weapon
Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge,” Washington Post, March 4, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/supreme-court-trump-ballot-decision/
George T. Conway, III, “The Court’s Colorado Decision Wasn’t About the Law,” Atlantic, March 5, 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/supreme-court-colorado-opinion-trump-disqualify/677646/
Jennifer Rubin, “The Supreme Court did Trump no favors. He’ll be facing a fall trial,” Washington Post, March 5, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/05/supreme-court-timing-trump-trial/
Matt Ford, “Everybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling,” New Republic, March 6, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/article/179576/supreme-court-disqualification-ruling-criticism
Sean Wilentz, “The Constitution Turned Upside Down,” New York Review of Books, March 6, 2024, https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/06/the-constitution-turned-upside-down/
Cameron Joseph, “How do you cover a candidate everyone knows—and no one remembers?” Columbia Journalism Review, March 8, 2024, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/biden-trump-sotu-voter-amnesia.php
Kim Lyons and Jon King, “Report classifies 87 Pennsylvania state lawmakers as ‘election deniers,’” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, March 11, 2024, https://penncapital-star.com/government-politics/report-classifies-pennsylvania-lawmakers-as-election-deniers/
Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, and Betsy Woodruff Swan, “Judge tosses six charges in Trump Georgia indictment,” Politico, March 13, 2024, https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/13/judge-tosses-six-charges-in-trump-georgia-indictment-00146713
Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett, “Judge Cannon rejects Trump’s attack on the Espionage Act,” Washington Post, March 14, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/14/trump-cannon-hearing-espionage-act-pra/
Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner, “Fani Willis can stay on Trump Georgia case, but only if Wade steps aside, judge says,” Washington Post, March 15, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/15/fani-willis-trump-georgia-case/
Thomas Doherty, “Trump wouldn’t be the first presidential candidate to campaign from a prison cell,” Conversation, March 15, 2024, https://theconversation.com/trump-wouldnt-be-the-first-presidential-candidate-to-campaign-from-a-prison-cell-225492
Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., “Why Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next,” Conversation, March 15, 2024, https://theconversation.com/why-fani-willis-was-allowed-to-stay-on-as-prosecutor-of-criminal-case-against-trump-in-georgia-and-what-happens-next-225532
Jan Wolfe, Cameron McWhirter, and Mariah Timms, “Willis Deputy Resigns, Allowing Her to Stay on Trump Case After Judge’s Ruling,” Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2024, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/judge-says-fani-willis-can-stay-on-georgia-trump-caseif-deputy-steps-aside-04790a42
Marisa Iati, “Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people,’” Washington Post, March 16, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/trump-immigrants-not-people/
Jon Allsop, “Context collapse,” Columbia Journalism Review, March 18, 2024, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_ohio_speech_bloodbath_media_broadcast_live.php
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Supreme Court Upholds Insurrection Ban on Official Who’s Not Trump,” New Republic, March 18, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/179895/supreme-court-insurrection-ban-january-6-rioter-new-mexico
Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein, “‘Very, very troubling’: Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon,” Washington Post, March 20, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/20/trump-cannon-judge-pra-jury-instructions/
Tori Otten, “A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes. They’re All From a Republican,” New Republic, March 28, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/180230/georgia-official-vote-illegally
Hafiz Rashid, “Another One Bites the Dust: Trump 2020 Lawyer Officially Disbarred,” New Republic, April 2, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/180365/eastman-trump-2020-lawyer-disbarred
Heather Cox Richardson, “April 2, 2024,” Letters from an American, April 3, 2024, https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2024
Sarah Fortinsky, “Ty Cobb says 11th Circuit may remove judge from Trump documents case,” Hill, April 3, 2024, https://thehill.com/homenews/4573686-ty-cobb-says-11th-circuit-may-remove-judge-from-trump-documents-case/
Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein, “Judge Cannon shoots down Trump’s presidential records act claim,” Washington Post, April 4, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/04/cannon-trump-jack-smith-presidential-records-act/
Hafiz Rashid, “Yet Another One of Trump’s 2020 Attorneys Could Be Disbarred,” New Republic, April 4, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/180473/another-trump-attorneys-jeffrey-clark-disbarred
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, “Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe,” Washington Post, April 24, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges-meadows-giuliani-ellis/
Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not immediately,” Washington Post, April 25, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/25/supreme-court-oral-arguments-trump-immunity/
Charles Homans, “Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This,” New York Times, April 27, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/magazine/trump-rallies-rhetoric.html
Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett, “Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida,” Washington Post, May 7, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/07/trump-classified-documents-trial-delayed-cannon-florida/
- [1]Ben Jennings, “Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s progress along the Republican nomination trail – cartoon,” Guardian, January 24, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/24/ben-jennings-on-donald-trumps-progress-along-the-republican-nomination-trail-cartoon↩