Giuliani threatens legal battle with Mueller over subpoena  —  The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani threatened a legal battle with special counsel Robert Mueller if he attempts to subpoena Donald Trump.  —  “If Mueller tries to subpoena us, we're going to court,” Giuliani told ABC News.

Trump's Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head off a Historic Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice …

The Trump Lawyers' Confidential Memo to Mueller, Explained  —  The Times obtained copies of a confidential letter sent by President Trump's lawyers to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.  Reporters added context in annotations.  Below it is another letter from the president's lawyers sent last summer.

The Constitutional Crisis Is Already Underway  —  For most of Donald Trump's presidency, the specter of a coming Constitutional crisis has loomed over the Russia investigation.  The newly leaked memo by Trump's lawyers, obtained by the New York Times, suggests that such a crisis is not merely a likelihood …

A Clueless “Final Year”  —  Remember the Duck Rabbit?  That's the famous image that, seen one way, looks like a duck but, seen from another angle, looks like a rabbit.  The image has provided fodder for children's books and also philosophers, its inherent ambiguity being catnip to both light fancy and epistemological lucubration.

Inside the White House During the Syrian ‘Red Line’ Crisis  —  In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public.  You never know which of them end up cementing a certain impression.  For Barack Obama, one of those phrases would be “red line.”