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Monthly Archives: September 2022

One cheer for the 11th Circuit

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Back at the end of 2019 I made some New Year’s predictions. One of them was to the effect that after he lost the election, Trump would vanish down the memory hole into which George Bush had leaped (or was shoved) in 2009. I was wrong, as Trump insisted on being worshipped, and the Republican […]

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What are the odds this bill will pass

Monday, September 19, 2022

If I were a betting man I wouldn’t think twice about how I’d bet on the prospects of this bill actually becoming law: Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) have introduced the Presidential Election Reform Act to prevent Trump from stealing 2024. According to NBC News, the bill would “The 38-page bill would […]

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Open criminality is the new norm

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Sometimes things move much too fast for someone who isn’t paid to blog. When I first heard about the stunt DeSantis pulled sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, it seemed to me that there was something, you know, illegal about it. My first thought was that it was kidnapping. I didn’t practice criminal law, and even […]

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One born every minute, or should that be “every second”

Monday, September 12, 2022

I have to admit that I can’t help but think that the folks who fall for this sort of stuff deserve what they get: While running Money Magnet Platinum Membership Initiative LLC, [Lakenya] Hopkins promised astronomical — and unrealistic — rates of returns on investments…. Hopkins claimed to investors she would get them \(8,000 in […]

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A righteous rant

Thursday, September 8, 2022

I was perusing my RSS Reader this morning, and came upon this post, in which the blogger at Above the Law righteously rants about various parties objecting to a settlement in an antitrust case against Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), which, based on the description in the post, was engaging in some heavy duty violations […]

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Stop me if I’ve bloviated on this before

Saturday, September 3, 2022

My wife and I have a little daily ritual. I read her the on-this-date entries from my diary. While Trump was in office I would normally note his crime of the day, but I usually skip the Trump stuff so far as what I read to my wife. But I read them to myself, and […]

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