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Joyce Vance

MSNBC Columnist

Joyce White Vance is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama.

Joyce White Vance is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama.

Latest from Joyce Vance

3d ago

What Trump's agriculture secretary misunderstands about backyard chickens

Now I know how many eggs a chicken lays in a day. But no matter what Trump says, raising chickens at home has not saved my family money at the grocery store.
33d ago

JD Vance knows better than to challenge judicial review

Yale-educated JD Vance appeared to challenge judicial review with a tweet arguing judges shouldn't be allowed to control Donald Trump's "legitimate" power.
66d ago

Trump wants to erase his guilty verdict. Judge Merchan has a plan to stop him.

Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to stay his sentencing on Friday after hush money guilty verdict. But Judge Juan Merchan (and Justice Ellen Gesmer) are right.
110d ago

What should happen to Jack Smith's classified documents report

Jack Smith can make sure his Trump Florida classified docs work isn't forgotten, even if Judge Chutkan and the DOJ decide this case won't ever go to trial.
138d ago

Michelle Obama just rejected everything the GOP's 'Tampon Tim' insult represents

With a week until Election Day, we hope Michelle Obama's Michigan speech on abortion, menopause and the misogyny of Vance and Trump will inspire Kamala Harris.
143d ago

Why extreme weather won’t disrupt the 2024 election

What would happen if a disaster — another hurricane, since the season doesn’t end until Nov. 30, or flooding or fires — were to interfere on Election Day?
212d ago

Here’s a message for JD Vance from two ‘postmenopausal’ women

In a 2020 podcast interview, JD Vance appeared to agree with host Eric Weinstein’s assertion that the "purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to raise kids.
326d ago

The revealing courage of Donald Trump's hush money trial jury

Thursday morning, Juror No. 2 told Judge Juan Merchan that she could no longer be an impartial participant in Donald Trump’s historic trial. She was not alone.
439d ago

What the legal system owes America in the era of Donald Trump

2024 is a new year. But Donald Trump's four legal trials bring up old questions about the American court system, appellate judges and the Supreme Court.
513d ago

The Fulton County question that should keep Trump up at night

One question that should keep Trump up at night? Which Georgia trial co-defendants will flip. After Scott Hall, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro may be next.
602d ago

The true motives behind Ted Cruz’s ludicrous 'Barbie' tirade

Texas' Ted Cruz claims war the new “Barbie” movie holds hidden messages and “Chinese propaganda.” But Trump, not Margot Robbie is the real problem.