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A little added gloss

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

I think Josh Marshall has it pretty much right hereabout the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing Trump’s Muslim ban to remain in effect: Here’s what I take as the crux of today’s majority decision and one which I suspect may come up again in subsequent decisions given President Trump’s behavior … For our purposes today, we […]

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A final lesson from the Gilded Age

Sunday, May 27, 2018

One more lesson from the Gilded Age, and, since I’ve now finished Richard White’s The Republic for Which It Stands, this will be the last.  This is not so much a parallel to our own age, but a warning of what we may have to come, assuming we survive the present state of affairs. Toward the […]

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A new twist on gerrymandering

Monday, May 14, 2018

We’ve all read various news stories about the fact that many of Trump’s policies will adversely and disproportionately affect the idiots who voted for him. Turns out that might not be the case, as Republicans resort to a new twist on one of their favorite ways to insure that the will of the minority prevails. […]

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Some more legal musing on Stormy and her pals

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Over at Hullabaloo, digby joins Greg Sargent in speculating that Stormy and Trump’s other accusers may spell real trouble for him. Sargent notes that: As CNN’s Collinson points out, this means Trump may be facing a period of pretrial discovery and possibly a deposition, which “could put Trump in a perilous position. I haven’t seen […]

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Really, too funny

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

These are weird times, what with the genius threatening the stability, and perhaps even the existence of the world, but there are things that can still make us laugh. This is one of them: Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed a nondisclosure agreement that his […]

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A few thoughts about Michael Cohen

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Donald Trump’s fixer lawyer has admitted that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence during the presidential campaign: Cohen stated: “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford […]

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Sue, Donald, Sue

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Donald Trump’s lawyers have demanded that publication of a new book about him be halted and have threatened to sue the author and publisher for libel. Apparently, the threat has inspired a great deal of fear and anxiety on the part of both author and publisher, as my wife tells me they’ve pushed up the […]

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Update

Friday, September 22, 2017

A couple of days ago I remarked on the fact that I had never seen the obvious point made, in coverage of “free speech” attempts to legalize anti-gay discrimination, that the same logic could be applied to racial or religious discrimination. I still haven’t seen it made by a member of the press, but it […]

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Supreme Court about to legalize discrimination

Sunday, September 17, 2017

It’s more than likely the case that the Supreme Court is about to legalize anti-Gay discrimination in the name of free speech and/or religious freedom. The case arises out of the refusal of a baker to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. It’s terribly unfair, he says, that he should be asked to […]

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Time to stop these activist judges!

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Okay, I’ll start this by admitting that I’m not the most experienced federal litigator in the world, but I find this puzzling: The City of Dallas voted Wednesday to immediately remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park, but the work was abruptly stopped by a federal judge. Soon after the […]

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