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A quick glance at my crystal ball

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

I received the latest issue of Church & State today. It’s a publication of Americans United for the Separation of Church & State, an organization which should not even have to exist, but alas, it is sorely needed. The lead article is about a challenge that Americans United, along with other usual suspects like the […]

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I don’t think it works that way (or at least it didn’t use to)

Friday, August 18, 2023

I practiced law for many years, but as I’ve confessed countless times, I know very little about the areas of the law that usually crop up in the news. Never handled a RICO case, for instance. But here’s a case in Nashville that I do know something about: People already struggling to make ends meet […]

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Fun reading

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

I just finished reading the Georgia indictment. A bit of a slog, since you have to go through so much boilerplate legal language, but still a fun read. I didn’t practice criminal law, and RICO wasn’t a thing when I took criminal law in law school, but it looks like a pretty strong case to […]

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Want to discriminate? Blame Jesus!

Friday, July 14, 2023

I’m sort of beating a dead horse here, but I like to think the horse was a Republican. A short while ago I asked how Clarence and his pals would explain why it’s okay for someone to refuse service to a gay couple but not an interracial one. Now we learn that the same folks […]

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A challenge for Clarence

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

In most of the mainstream media coverage of the recent Supreme Court decision allowing a person who has never been asked to design a website for a gay couple to refuse to design a website for a gay couple, an obvious corollary to the court’s ruling is never mentioned. If I can refuse services to […]

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Somewhat good news?

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

So, the Supreme Court has rejected the so called “independent state legislature” theory, , a legal argument so flimsy that in my law school days, had anyone attempted to make the argument in a constitutional law class, he or she would have failed. But, all is not lost for the fascists and racists pushing this […]

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How will the Supreme Court get around this. They will you know.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

This is interesting. It appears that there’s been some language missing from one of the most important Reconstruction statutes, 42 USC 1983, a statute that has been used to protect Americans from “deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States”. There has been a lot of important litigation […]

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Rudy’s been naughty

Monday, May 15, 2023

So Rudy is being sued by a former employee for sexual harassment in the extreme. You can read many of the gory details here. Among them: [The] 70-page suit cites audio recordings and accuses Giuliani, 78, in graphic detail of subjecting her to sexual assault and harassment throughout her employment, forcing her to engage in […]

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Nothing wrong with a “politically motivated” prosecution if the defendant is guilty

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

One of the Republican talking points about the indictment of a certain very stable genius is that the prosecution is “politically motivated”. I won’t belabor the obvious point that this is rich coming from a party that has called for the prosecution of its political opponents (“lock her up”, “Hunter’s laptop”, etc.) on a routine […]

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Fox argues again: we can’t commit libel because no sane person believes us

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Fox is once again defending a libel suit by claiming that no reasonable person could believe what they were hearing on its programs. Erin Murphy, the lawyer, was defending Fox against a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems in response to the network’s post-2020 election coverage. Dominion alleges that Fox knowingly and deliberately aired […]

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