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Just wondering

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Anyone who is reading this is probably already aware of the blockbuster brief that the Justice Department just filed in the case against the genius. I’ve read through it, and as has been reported almost everywhere, it makes a strong case for the former guy’s guilt, as well as implicating some of his lawyers in […]

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Pick a lawyer that suits your needs

Monday, July 25, 2022

I didn’t practice criminal law, but I do have some insight into basic legal principles, so this left me somewhat puzzled. The excellent Marcy Wheeler notes here that the Trump appointed judge who presided over the Bannon trial opined that while he was bound by precedent to throw out Bannon’s advice of counsel defense, he […]

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The court will find a way

Thursday, June 23, 2022

When I first read this column from the New York Times I thought: Hey, this is great: What a week so far for conservatives. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that prohibited religious private schools from receiving taxpayer dollars. And on Thursday, it invalidated a New York State gun safety law […]

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More on the post Roe world

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Since my post of a few days ago I’ve read a lot of speculation about which precedents the court will destroy next. Most of the speculation is sound, but some should give one pause, if one believed that the right wing members of the court have even a shred of intellectual honesty. For instance, a […]

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Where we may go after Roe goes down

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Yesterday we learned (no need to link, everyone knows about it by now) that the Supreme Court is planning to reverse Roe v. Wade. It’s actually a bit of a surprise to me, as I expected that they would simply gradually chip away at it until it was all but overruled, but never expressly so. […]

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A glimpse into our legal future

Monday, February 28, 2022

The Supreme Court is now considering how it will go about destroying the ability of the federal government to deal effectively with climate change. The situation is explained at length here I’ll just quote the gist, which is long enough: West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most frustrating cases that the […]

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The rich are different from you and me

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

If you are an inveterate reader of blogs, as am I, in addition to or in lieu of the mass media, you have no doubt read lots of speculation about the chances of Trump being indicted. I didn’t practice criminal law, as I learned early on that in that area of practice, it’s ordinarily two […]

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The Supreme Court isn’t partisan…

Monday, February 7, 2022

It’s just a massive coincidence that it’s rulings all favor Republicans, as they implement their racist agenda to once again deprive African Americans, other minorities, and Democrats generally, of the right to cast a meaningful vote, assuming they are allowed to vote at all. Today the court stayed a lower court ruling that found -surprise-surprise- […]

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Don’t expect consistency from this court

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, is planning to turn the tables on the Supreme Court, using the same dodge Texas used to abolish abortion rights to abolish the already bogus gun rights. In their rush to permit the state of Texas to deputize private citizens to bring lawsuits against women seeking abortions and their abortion providers, […]

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Yet another shocked enabler

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Driftglass often remarks about the fact that memory is a liberal superpower, and as with most things he says, he seems to be right. He has, of late, been quite busy exposing the Republican never-Trumpers for the hypocrites they are, as they attempt to cover up their own part in creating the fascist party that […]

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