By now, you’ve no doubt seen the news that Tucker Carlson and Fox News have parted ways. Since he has been yanked from the air without getting a chance to say goodbye, it’s a pretty fair assumption that he has been fired. Proximity doesn’t necessarily prove causation, but it’s pretty…

Dominion v. Fox News Some thoughts on the Fox-Dominion settlement: Most civil suits end in settlement. When I was a young lawyer trying to get some courtroom experience, it drove me nuts that cases I had spent late nights preparing kept settling — often on the courthouse steps. …

This excellent editorial by Thomas Edsall lays out an indictment of the anti-democratic fervor in modern Republicanism. Republicans are made up of two core groups: Oligarchs and self-perceived cultural victims: ” When it comes to democratic backsliding in the states, the results couldn’t be clearer: over the past two decades…

It’s Money That Matters Kyrsten Sinema, recent cosplayer at the State of the Union Screamathon, while not veering into the Kompletely Krazy realm that has become the norm for the GOP, nevertheless could not sign on to Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction legislation last year unless Democrats agreed to preserve the Carried Interest Rule under…

The two major prongs of the Mueller Report were (1) Trump and his allies committed multiple instances of obstruction of justice, but he could not (yet) be criminally indicted while still serving as president, and (2) there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate collusion between Trump and Russia in the 2016…

This business of selling your soul can be tricky. In the musical, Damn Yankees, a Washington Senators fan made such a deal with the devil so his team could beat the Yankees for the pennant. The Senators in question were the baseball team, not the ones on Capitol Hill. Yesterday’s…

WHY REELECTING SENATOR WARNOCK STILL MATTERS You’re no doubt aware of the pending runoff election in Georgia between Senator Raphael Warnock and the mind-bogglingly incompetent Herschel Walker. The election will be held on December 6. Warnock won a plurality in the general election, but just missed getting 50% of the vote (49.4% to Walker’s 48.5%). The…

Indictment Porn The fear of Republican retribution in response to prosecution of Trump is, frankly, laughable. Republicans have been exacting ‘retribution’ over every grievance the MAGA Lord can imagine. January 6. Attacks on the FBI. ‘Election reform.’ More to come — and it matters not what the DOJ does or does not do. Republicans will not abuse the elimination of the filibuster because the Democrats got rid of it. They will eliminate it themselves as soon as they get a chance. The crocodile will eat you no matter how kind you’ve been.

Re the Dahlia Lithwick and Richard L Hasen Slate article concerning the $1.6 Billion donation to Leonard Leo’s dark money foundation: Regrettably, the authors serve up plenty to worry about, but not much hope for breaking out of our serfdom during the next fifty years. It’s not just that “No…