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Aug 26

Indictment Porn

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.

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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.

We need to get over our addiction to Trump-indictment porn. The noise is distracting from real issues which must be settled this fall.

If Garland has a case. he must bring it — without fear or favor. In the meantime, Republicans are forcing 10-year-old rape victims to bear children.

Focus.

Aug 24

UPPITY

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…

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Aug 13

All they had to do was ask.

All they had to do was ask. By Donald J. Trump: Posted on Truth Social, Statements by Donald J. Trump “Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to “seize” anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. …

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Aug 7

Why the Independent State Legislature Doctrine is Both Ridiculous and a Real Threat

Through its newly-radicalized Supreme Court, the hard right hopes to use the “Independent State Legislature” (ISL) doctrine to give sole control over federal elections to state legislatures (and the Republican Party) — unconstrained by provisions in states’ constitutions, and beyond review by the other branches of state government, i.e., …

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Why the Independent State Legislature Doctrine is Both Ridiculous and a Real Threat

Jul 27

SCOTUS Reform: Democrats’ new TERM Limits Bill

SCOTUS Reform: Democrats’ new TERM Limits Bill House Democrats have introduced legislation which would establish 18-year term limits on Supreme Court justices’ active tenure. It’s called the TERM Act (Supreme Court “Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization.”) It would: Establish terms of 18 years in regular active service for Supreme Court justices, after which justices who retain the…

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Jul 23

How the Supreme Court Can Have its Jurisdiction “Stripped”

How the Supreme Court Can Have its Jurisdiction “Stripped” When I was still practicing law, there was a pretty smart lawyer in my firm who knew the ins and outs of tax law. The collective wisdom was that if you ever needed to ask Louie a question, you better make sure you had a place to sit. …

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Jul 17

The Way Out

Steve Bannon, Trump’s Joseph Goebbels, has made clear that one of his key propaganda objectives is to “flood the zone with shit.” And at this point, with inflation piled on COVID; with a radicalized, activist Supreme Court rewriting decades of jurisprudence in the space of a couple of weeks; with…

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Jun 28

Originalism.

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Originalism.

Jun 24

Contempt of Court

THE DEATH OF ROE AND THE FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE — In criminal cases, there is a doctrine called the “fruit of the poisonous tree” under which the government is prevented from offering evidence of a crime if the path to obtaining that evidence began with illegal conduct by the government. The rule applies even where subsequently obtained evidence unquestionably proves…

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Jun 12

DONALD TRUMP’S NEW CLOTHES

During the Watergate hearings, Senator Howard Baker, famously defined the scope of committee’s job. It was just after John Dean had testified for two days, implicating Richard Nixon in the cover-up of the burglary of Democratic Headquarters, including Nixon’s knowledge and orchestration of the payment of illegal “hush money” intended…

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