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Asha Rangappa

Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She is a former FBI Special Agent and a legal and national security analyst for CNN.

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LAW AND ORDER

It’s Time to Impeach Trump Again for His Georgia Shakedown

Precisely because there is so little time left in his term, impeachment is the only thing that can achieve what our criminal laws cannot.

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‘TAKEN CARE OF’

Manafort Gets His Reward for Saving Trump from Mueller

To understand why Manafort’s silence was so critical for Trump, it is helpful to remember Manafort’s background and activities during his short-lived role in the Trump campaign.

Asha Rangappa

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PLAN E

Barr’s Above the Law. The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.

The special counsel regulations don’t contemplate investigating a potentially corrupt AG—because a corrupt AG would never invoke the regulations to investigate himself.

Asha Rangappa

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FAMILY AFFAIR

The Law May Be Closing In On a Possible Trump Family Grift

A New York judge just allowed a 2018 lawsuit to proceed. The big Trump fear: the discovery process. Because that’s when the public discovers stuff.

Asha Rangappa

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DIDN’T THINK OF THAT

Bill Barr Can’t Investigate Obama. Who Says So? Bill Barr.

Whatever Obamagate is, Barr can’t probe it by his own standards, which hold that a president is the law and can do practically anything.

Asha Rangappa

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