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Attorney General William Barr‘s ham-fisted firing this weekend of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the powerful Southern District of New York, bears all the hallmarks of the Trump administration’s shoot-first-aim-second approach to governing. But the clumsiness of Berman’s ouster shouldn’t overshadow the chilling message sent by the firing of …

When Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed a gag order on Roger Stone, she warned Trump’s irrepressible former adviser that she would not tolerate another word out of him about his upcoming trial, on charges of lying to Congress and attempting to suborn perjury from a fellow witness. Stone appeared in …