The problem is this: “When the District of Columbia is the venue for any prosecution with political overtones, Justice Department charging decisions must factor in the jury pool, which is solidly anti-Trump,” observed former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy… Justice still … Continue reading →
Trump grants clemency to Eddie De Bartolo Jr., Blagojevich, Keric, Milken, and others. Blagojevich had his sentence commuted (after serving eight years) and the rest were pardoned, along with clemency in other less high-profile cases. There is a big difference … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote: Once upon a time, this sort of [juror] bias [as evidenced by Tomeka Hart] would have been something liberals would have recognized as disqualifying. But now, since it hurt Trump and Stone, I predict that the judge, … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley writes about the bias of jury foreman Tomeka Hart in the Roger Stone trial: She referred to the President with a hashtag of “klanpresident” and spoke out against “Trump and the white supremacist racists.” She posted about how … Continue reading →
McCarthy sets up the question very well: Why not indict McCabe on felony false-statements charges? That is the question being pressed by incensed Trump supporters. After all, the constitutional guarantee of equal justice under the law is supposed to mean … Continue reading →
The #MeToo movement has given me the willies from the very first moment I read about it. It seemed, and still seems, designed to allow unfounded accusations to be disseminated, accepted on faith, and proceed to destroy men’s lives. Note … Continue reading →
J. Christian Adams has been on this theme for a long, long time. His latest: The Scales of Justice come in two versions, one for Democrats and one for Trump. Let’s examine those Justice Department “career lawyers.” It is now … Continue reading →
Barr has appointed a special prosecutor to review what happened to Flynn: The Department of Justice has tapped an outside prosecutor to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Fox News has learned. A senior Justice Department … Continue reading →
And it’s not a perp walk, either: The Justice Department said Friday it will not pursue criminal charges against former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, after a nearly two-year-long investigation into accusations brought by the agency’s independent watchdog who claimed … Continue reading →
…was Tomeka Hart, and now it is being reported that earlier she had tweeted many anti-Trump posts, including the strong belief that all Trump followers are racists, and that she seems to have tweeted prior to the trial in ways … Continue reading →
We wait and wait, but my guess is that only the lawyer who hid the CIA-asset status of Carter Page will pay any real price. I hope I’m wrong and that bigger fish get caught, but my faith in that … Continue reading →
…is one of the more bizarre of the Democrats’ criticisms of the goings-on in the Senate, if you go by the laws of logic. Impeachment trials use the word “trial” as a sort of shorthand for some sort of legal … Continue reading →