Mark Greenberg (UCLA) and Harry Litman (Rutgers): Trump’s Corrupt Use of the Pardon Power. Trump and the return of divine right: In deploying his pardon power freely and using the Bible to justify family separation, the president is exactly the sort of ruler that Enlightenment thinkers feared. Where did Donald Trump get two hundred million dollars to buy his money-losing Scottish golf club? You are paying for the Trump brothers to travel the world on Trump Organization business: Their secret service details are racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel costs. ProPublica finds $16.1 million in political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties (and more). David Cay Johnston on how to make Trump’s tax returns public.
