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Where to they find these people?

Sunday, March 30, 2025

One of the truly amazing things about the current Republican Party is the number of people who have been elected (or appointed) to powerful positions who are amazingly stupid. I’m not just talking about the individual who currently holds the title of President while someone else is actually calling the shots. Consider this. Congresswoman Victoria […]

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A harbinger

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

I think the writer at Lawyers, Guns and Money is right about this case currently at the Supreme Court, where it should not have lasted a minute: Three weeks ago a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to plaintiffs suing the Trump administration for freezing foreign aid funds that had already been appropriated by […]

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Yet another thing you couldn’t make up

Saturday, February 22, 2025

This is getting bizarre: Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do […]

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The dictator(s) steps up

Thursday, February 6, 2025

I just read that Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s and girl’s sports. It goes without saying that there is no legal basis for such an order. It is possible that a state legislature and/or Congress could pass a bill that would pass constitutional muster but any reasonable court would […]

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Predictions for the coming year

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

I’ve done this before. Sometimes my predictions have come true, and sometimes I’ve been spectacularly wrong, such as when I predicted in 2020 that Republicans would consign Trump to the same memory hole into which they dumped George W. Here’s hoping I’m spectacularly wrong again. First, some predictions about very recent events. Trump has asked […]

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Who ever said a (Democratic) president could pardon someone?

Saturday, December 7, 2024

There’s a lot of talk out there about Biden preemptively pardoning people like Jack Smith, Liz Cheney and Fauci, people who have committed no crimes but would still be on the hit list of the Department of Injustice once Trump gets in. Biden should do it, without question. The only question is whether the pardons […]

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Not so sure there’s a bright side

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Like a lot of other people, from what I’ve heard, I’ve essentially refused to absorb much of the news since the election. I decided last week that as of this past Monday I would phase back in to reading my blogs and other sources of information, though I will not be perusing the New York […]

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The Road to Fascism Straight Ahead

Friday, November 15, 2024

I’m still recovering. I don’t know if I ever will, nor do I think the country ever will. I’m terrified for my three grandchildren, who will likely live under a dictatorship. As time went on, however, I began to see things more clearly. After Mitt Romney lost in 2012 I predicted that the next candidate […]

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A prediction

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Looking on the bright side, this post assumes a Kamala win in November and a Democratic Senate. Now, for the not so bright side. A week or so ago a friend who is also a lawyer wrote to ask if I had any idea what the constitutional basis would be for the creation of a […]

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A question answered

Saturday, September 21, 2024

A friend and fellow New London County attorney maintains an email list to whom he sends links of articles well worth reading, and in today’s email we get a link to an extremely interesting article in the Guardian entitled Is Donald Trump A Fascist?. Before answering that question I will digress for a moment. It […]

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