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  • Joan Biskupic
    CNN Legal Analyst

    Joan Biskupic, a full-time CNN legal analyst, has covered the Supreme Court for twenty-five years and is the author of several books on the judiciary.

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  • CNN Investigation: Sexual misconduct by judges kept under wraps

    By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer. Statistics compiled by Aaron Kessler.
    One morning in 1998, US District Court Judge Walter Smith called a deputy clerk into his chambers in the Waco, Texas, courthouse and closed the door behind her.
  • What Watergate and Whitewater tell us about Trump's drip, drip, drip

  • Why Joe Arpaio was found guilty

  • Trump puts faith in religious right

  • Gorsuch v. Roberts: The rookie takes on the chief

  • Why Robert Mueller is the most powerful man in Washington

  • In this file photo taken on January 22, 2019 the US Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC.

    Trump hates the courts, but they could help him fight impeachment

  • Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School, from left, Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery professor of public interest law at Stanford Law School, Michael Gerhardt, Burton Craige distinguished professor of jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor of public interest law at the George Washington University Law School, swear in to a House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019.

    How constitutional scholars talk when they talk about the Constitution

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    Will Chief Justice Roberts wield a heavy gavel during Senate impeachment trial?

  • US President Donald J. Trump (L) shakes hands with Chief Justice John Roberts (R) as he arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017.   / AFP / POOL / JIM LO SCALZO        (Photo credit should read JIM LO SCALZO/AFP/Getty Images)

    How John Roberts might oversee a Senate impeachment trial

  • UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 12:  IMPEACHMENT VOTE--U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist leaves the Senate chamber for the last time after the vote .  (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)