Barbara McQuade
MSNBC Columnist
Barbara McQuade is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is the author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America," as well as a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Barbara McQuade is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is the author of "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America," as well as a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Latest from Barbara McQuade
Why the DOJ filed charges against Hamas leaders it is unlikely to ever arrest
On Tuesday the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint charging six leaders of Hamas for their roles in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel.
Why the Menendez guilty verdict matters
Prosecutors in New Jersey obtained a guilty verdict Tuesday on all counts in trial of Democratic Senator Bob Mendendez on charges of bribery and fraud.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent is a clarion call against corruption
Justice Jackson's fiery Supreme Court dissent takes the John Roberts court to task for enabling grifters in Snyder v. United States decision.
The real motivation behind the GOP's absurd calls to prosecute Democrats
After Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan on 34 felony counts, Republican allies from Steve Bannon to Jim Jordan to Marco Rubio call for Dem prosecution.
The New York team prosecuting Trump began this trial with the end in mind
At the end of the trial comes the closing argument, which for Donald Trump begins Tuesday. Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors have spent weeks setting up a grand finale.
Judge Merchan just put on a clinic in dealing with Trump’s disinformation
Judge Juan Merchan politely but firmly deflated Trump’s latest misleading spin about whether the trial gag order prevents the former president from testifying.
The two things that can both be true about Fani Willis' new ethics controversy
New allegations against Fani Willis and Nathan Wade in Georgia are serious, but don't change anything about Donald Trump’s guilt or innocence in Fulton County.
Trump's pardon abuses were already bad. But they could get worse in 2025.
Trump pardon abuse was exposed (again) by a New York Times bombshell. But 2025 could be worse, if Trump risks national security to pardon January 6 offenders.
The court should’ve seen the evidence leak in Trump’s Georgia case coming
The judge and prosecutor in Donald Trump's Georgia RICO case should have done more to prevent evidence from being leaked. A protective order was imposed too late.
Jack Smith tells Trump to put up or shut up
Jack Smith asked Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to order Donald Trump to provide formal pre-trial notice of any intent to rely on advice of counsel as a trial defense.
The sad irony of Fani Willis flipping the RICO statute on Rudy Giuliani
The indictment of Rudy Giuliani under RICO as part of the sprawling Donald Trump indictment case in Georgia is ironic, especially for some in New York City.
