Mary McCord

MSNBC legal analyst

Mary B. McCord is an MSNBC and NBC News legal and national security contributor, and co-host of the MSNBC podcast, “Prosecuting Donald Trump.” She is the executive director of Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. She previously served as the acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice and was an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia for nearly 20 years.


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Mary McCord

2years ago
Deadline: Legal Blog

Trump’s 2020 election indictment is not about politics. It’s about accountability.

It doesn’t take a political genius to see that the DOJ’s investigations are in some ways entirely against the political interests of Joe Biden.

3years ago
Deadline: Legal Blog

Did Trump solicit a crime of violence against his own vice president?

It’s no defense that the Secret Service was successful in whisking Mike Pence away before the mob could catch him on Jan. 6, 2021.