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DC Statehood’s likely fate

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A bill has been introduced in Congress to make the District of Columbia a state. The overriding purpose, besides giving people who are subject to taxation some representation, is to increase our Senate majority by adding a fairly populated state to balance off some Senators from sparsely populated wastelands like Wyoming. I’ve read elsewhere, but […]

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Is it okay if you’re a Democrat?

Thursday, January 21, 2021

I have to admit that I was unaware of this at the time, but apparently during the administration of he who shall go unnamed, the Supreme Court ruled that legislation shielding the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being fired was unconstitutional. They did it so the genius could replace a rational person […]

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More libel suits, please

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Dominion has had some success in getting Fox to back down by threatening libel actions, and is threatening to sue Trump and his attorneys. This may be one way in which the spread of disinformation can be halted. Last night a group of people staged a candlelight vigil at Josh Hawley’s home, protesting his pre-announced […]

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Guilty with an explanation

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

CTBlue has come into possession of the draft of a brief written by somewhat reputable lawyers retained by the very stable genius to represent him in his upcoming criminal cases, including that arising from his attempt to threaten the Georgia Secretary of State into changing the election results. This is a draft related to the […]

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Some Fancy Legal Footwork in the future

Thursday, November 26, 2020

The Supreme Court, compliments of the newest addition to that once august body, has made another dent in constitutional law and advanced us a step further toward theocracy, ruling as it has that the state has no right to protect its citizens from a plague if a religious entity insists on spreading said plague. I’ve […]

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Something obvious but rarely mentioned

Friday, November 20, 2020

Just a short observation, prompted by this article in today’s New York Times, which details yet more criminal activity on the part of a pre-presidential Donald Trump. We learn from the article that Trump avoided taxes by diverting money to his daughter for “consulting fees”. It is rarely mentioned that if we had a legal […]

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DC Statehood

Friday, October 2, 2020

There’s been some talk lately about making both Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia states in order to increase blue Senators by four and to provide the representation to the people of those areas that they currently lack. I’m all for it, but, being a lawyer, and living in the era of a Supreme […]

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Dershowitz takes unintentional aim at Fox

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN because: Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law professor, is seeking $300 million in a federal libel lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news network attempted to damage his reputation by misrepresenting a statement he made during President Trump’s impeachment trial. … Dershowitz was one of several attorneys who represented Trump […]

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Bad Moon Rising

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

I didn’t practice criminal law, so I never had any reason to bone up on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the Flynn case baffles me. Well, not really. Given the makeup of the panel, I figured it was at least a 50/50 probability. But it’s difficult to see, […]

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How stupid do you have to be to teach at Harvard Law?

Saturday, May 16, 2020

This is truly bizarre. A Harvard Law Professor is representing a couple of presidential electors who claim that they should be free to vote for anyone they want, despite state laws requiring them to vote for the candidate for whom they pledged to vote when they got on the ballot in the first place. But, […]

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