CT Blue

Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an article about an Administrative Law Judge who grants nearly 100% of the claims before him. There was also an implication that he was able to steer cases from one particular lawyer to himself. Predictably, this has led to calls from Republicans for Congressional investigations into the entire disability […]

Some good news to partially offset the fact that this allegedly bankrupt country is now raining expensive missiles on yet another country, with no clear explanation of what we expect to accomplish or how we know we’ve done so. On Monday, a federal appeals court reinstated a key legal challenge to that surveillance: a lawsuit […]

Not being an election law specialist, I have been somewhat at a loss to conceive of the legal strategy Foley is thinking of employing to get the results of the election reversed. However, I have, from a secret source from my many contacts in the upper echelons of the Republican party, come into possession (if […]

The Boston Globe casts doubt on an arson conviction of a man who has now been in prison since the mid 80s. It’s a familiar story-the primary evidence against him was a confession obtained after hours of police questioning. The details of the confession were are variance with the physical evidence at the scene, but […]

Why is this not conspiracy to defraud? Goldman Sachs has been accused of fraud by the SEC, but its apparent partner in fraud will emerge far richer and unscathed. … Paulson & Co., made a $3.7 billion profit by betting against the housing market as it nose dived in 2006 and 2007. On Friday, the […]