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Molly Roberts
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senior editor at @lawfaremedia.org | ex-washington post opinions 🤐
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Jim Comey's appendix of Trump attacks was 60 pages (tho it did not claim to be comprehensive).

Tish James' is 113 pages.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Talking Sandwich Guy on Lawfare Live today, tune in! (My colleagues will also be talking about grave and important matters if that’s more to your taste.) youtube.com/live/zvcvF_-...
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 7
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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There is such a thing as a free lunch at the "sandwich guy" trial: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Good morning! Day 4 of the Sandwich Guy’s trial. He is finally wearing a suit (the rest of the week’s evidence suggests he seems to prefer pullovers in cooler weather). The jury has a note for the judge.
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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NEW: “To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.”

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Back for Day 2 of Sandwich Guy’s trial. In government opening statement: “This case is about the fact that you can’t go around throwing stuff at people when you’re mad.”
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I am at the so-called Sandwich Guy’s trial, where Judge Carl Nichols just called the matter “the simplest case in the history of the world.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Trump’s ballroom-to-be may seem silly to focus on when the administration daily takes one backhoe or another wrecking ball to the rule of law itself. But the patterns of abuse here are the same. Read my latest @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Demolition Derby
The president's project to build a ballroom where the White House’s East Wing once stood is an end-run around the law.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you want to know EVERYTHING that happened at the Letitia James arraignment (and why wouldn’t you!) I have you covered. Read my dispatch @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
Trial Dispatch: The Arraignment of Letitia James
A view from inside the Eastern District of Virginia courtroom where New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty to mortgage fraud.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Molly Roberts
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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"[A] possible Hatch Act violation appears on the very DOJ page advising workers that they’re subject to the Hatch Act." @mollyroberts.bsky.social on all those agency home pages blaming Dems for shutdown.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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for a closer look at the james indictment, read @mollyroberts.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org about the Letitia James indictment -- what's actually in it, not what everyone expected to be. Spoiler: It's still very bad! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James
Lindsey Halligan didn't have a strong case against Letitia James. She indicted her anyway.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New by me for @lawfaremedia.org: The possible case against Letitia James reflects Trump’s modus operandi of responding to perceived offenses against him not just tit for tat, but tat for tat. He treats others the exact same way he claims they’ve mistreated him. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
Next Up: Letitia James
It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
wake up babe the equal rights amendment is now the law of the land
January 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
it appears every individual truly is an extremely specific type of guy
December 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM