The Marshall Project

A Reader’s Guide to Our Constitutional Crisis

What you need to know about the week’s momentous legal and political news in Trumpland.

It’s not easy to write in real time about the legal and political fate of a president who , “NO COLLUSION — RIGGED WITCH HUNT!” at one o’clock in the morning. In part this is because of the gulf that exists between the reality that animates the mind of Donald Trump and the reality in which the rest of us live. In part it’s because so much of what happened this week, in and out of courts in Washington, New York, and Virginia,

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