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Monthly Archives: February 2021

More stuff you couldn’t make up

Saturday, February 27, 2021

I frequent a blog called Above the Law, which features articles about my former profession. I think it’s fair to say the site has a slightly leftward slant, but then one can say that about anyone who is rational these days. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about the posts here and here […]

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Expect More of This

Friday, February 26, 2021

Everyone is aware that the Republican Party is in the grip of religious fundamentalists, but over the next few years we will become ever more aware that it, and as a result the nation, is now in the grip of legal fundamentalists, judges who are intent on reviving once thought dead constitutional jurisprudence in order […]

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Grifters gotta grift

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

I spent a bit of time yesterday reading the complaint in the case of U.S. Dominion, Inc. et. al. v. My Pillow, Inc., et. al over the last couple of days. You can read and/or download it here. Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is one of the et. als. among the defendants. It’s a […]

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Liberal bias runs rampant! Well, actually, not so much

Monday, February 22, 2021

First, let me recommend this site, to which I’m linking for purposes of this post. Eric Boehlert covers media bias, the real kind, that routinely consigns Democrats to the bench. In this instance, he points out something that is both outrageous and perfectly predictable: After creating new programming rules for the Trump administration and airing […]

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Politics is a funny business

Sunday, February 21, 2021

My wife and I get three newspapers every morning, the execrable New London Day, which I rarely read, the New York Times, because I need my dose of Paul Krugman, and the Boston Globe. As a result I’m somewhat up on Massachusetts politics. The tendency of the folks in Massachusetts to elect Republican governors has […]

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Rush Limbaugh is dead

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

It’s days like this when it saddens me that I no longer believe in Hell.

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Some things never change

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

While my wife and I await our second shot, after which we will feel free to, you know, do things, and as I wait out the weather, which has pretty much put an end to daily biking, I’ve been doing more reading than usual. Among the books I’m currently reading is Herman Melville’s The Confidence […]

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Be careful what you ask for

Friday, February 12, 2021

The Republicans are making a deeply dishonest argument. I know, every argument they make is deeply dishonest, so I really have to be a little more specific. As the FCC gets closer to restoring net neutrality, a new and bizarre GOP talking point has emerged. It goes something like this: if you’re going to restore […]

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Super Sunday rant

Sunday, February 7, 2021

This is my blog, and since no one reads it anyway, I figure I have a perfect right to write about two unrelated things in one blog post. So, here goes. As a still licensed, though retired lawyer, I’m interested in the series of lawsuits that have been filed against, Fox, Giuliani, and their ilk […]

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How Stupid to you have to be to teach at Harvard Law? (Part 2)

Friday, February 5, 2021

Alan Dershowitz is apparently not alone. Back in May I wrote a post about Larry Lessig, Harvard Law Professor who brought a case to the Supreme Court claiming that presidential electors should be free to vote for the person of their choice, in spite of state laws requring them to vote for the candidate to […]

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