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A harbinger

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

I think the writer at Lawyers, Guns and Money is right about this case currently at the Supreme Court, where it should not have lasted a minute: Three weeks ago a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to plaintiffs suing the Trump administration for freezing foreign aid funds that had already been appropriated by […]

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Who ever said a (Democratic) president could pardon someone?

Saturday, December 7, 2024

There’s a lot of talk out there about Biden preemptively pardoning people like Jack Smith, Liz Cheney and Fauci, people who have committed no crimes but would still be on the hit list of the Department of Injustice once Trump gets in. Biden should do it, without question. The only question is whether the pardons […]

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A prediction

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Looking on the bright side, this post assumes a Kamala win in November and a Democratic Senate. Now, for the not so bright side. A week or so ago a friend who is also a lawyer wrote to ask if I had any idea what the constitutional basis would be for the creation of a […]

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Supreme Injustice

Thursday, June 27, 2024

In the last few days the Supreme Court has legalized bribery, (so long as the bribe is paid afterthe public official does the dirty work, and made it virtually impossible for administrative agencies to enforce the laws they are supposed to enforce. As to the bribery decision, how can you blame them, since they had […]

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Vermont considers the unthinkable

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

I started this post a few days ago, but we went to Vermont this past weekend and I didn’t have the chance to finish it up there. It’s about Vermont, by the way. It seems that those aging hippies up there in Vermont just never learn. Look what they want to do: Vermont is poised […]

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A few predictions

Saturday, April 27, 2024

A few observations resulting from legal developments this past week. First, it appears increasingly likely that Trump will be convicted in his New York trial and that said conviction will take place within a few weeks. Also, and somewhat to my surprise (but not totally, given the corruption on the Supreme Court) it appears likely […]

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One law for me, another for thee

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

This story (more here and here) hasn’t gotten much mainstream attention, so far as I know, but it presages a monumental change in the law. There will soon be, if there not already is, one set of laws for the right and another for the left, one set of laws for right wing “Christians” and […]

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A shocking decision…not

Monday, March 4, 2024

Was there anyone on the planet that thought the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse the Colorado court’s action taking Trump off the ballot? Some of the many organizations filling my inbox with solicitations for money certainly pretended that they thought it could happen, but I don’t for a moment think any of them truly believed it. […]

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Fun reading

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Just got finished reading the decision in United States v. Trump, which you can read here. Like some others, I thought that the Republican judge on the panel was holding things up indefinitely, and I still sort of think that the other two judges had to work on her to get her to join in […]

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Is this really a big deal?

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Multiple other media outlets I’ve read seem to agree with Truthout that Former Trump Lawyer’s Revelation is ‘Devestating for Trump, Legal Experts Say. This refers to the leaked proffer testimony of Jenna Ellis summarized as follows: Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis told prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., that a senior aide to the former president […]

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