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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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An interesting case

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

I’m just sort of passing this along. It’s a fascinating case covered at this post on Above the Law. The Massachusetts Supreme Court is about to decide whether a convicted defendant who is black is entitled to a new trial because his public defender was a rabid racist. The issue under debate is whether a […]

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Judicial Intellectual Dishonesty (Who would think!)

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Just before he died at the hands of someone who should never have had a gun, John Lennon gave an interview to Playboy, in which he asserted that “everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it”. I won’t go into details on Lennon’s thinking or reasoning, but it looks like right wing judges […]

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A typical case of American Blind Justice

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Isn’t this great? On Friday, the former President’s namesake company, the Trump Organization, was sentenced to pay the state $1.6 million in fines. That is the maximum allowed by law. I would be willing to bet that the state of New York spent more than $1.6 million dollars to get the guilty verdict (remember, it […]

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Sometimes being a lawyer can be fun

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Every once in a while even a lawyer gets the opportunity to let his or her snark flag fly. I really got a kick out of the letter Dr. Dre’s (real name Andre Young) lawyers sent to Marjorie Taylor Greene after she used some of his music in a twitter video she made. You can […]

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More legal illogic coming down the pike?

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

This is sort of a follow up to one my recent posts, in which I wondered what type of pretzel logic the Supreme Court would use to reject a case brought by Jews who claimed that they had a right to abortion services as their religion does not hold that life begins at conception. So, […]

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An upcoming challenge for the not so Supremes

Monday, December 5, 2022

It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court handles these cases if they make it to the highest court in the land: The ACLU is bringing a suit against Indiana’s regressive, sadistic abortion ban based on the fact that it infringes on the religious rights of anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the fantasy […]

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The Supreme Court: “See, we’re impartial!”

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

It’s entirely possible that I’m repeating something I’ve written before, but Driftglass, one of my favorite bloggers, does that all the time, so I will proceed. It came as no surprise to me that the Supreme Court told Lindsay Graham to pound sand when he asked them to protect him from testifying in Georgia about […]

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Is anyone qualified to sit on a Trump jury?

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

I was not surprised at all to learn that they’re having a bit of trouble picking a jury  for the civil case against the Trump Organization. It seems that a lot of people have preconceived notions about Donald Trump, and although he’s technically not a party, it just might affect their judgment. What a surprise! […]

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