Laurence Tribe is as partisan a Trump-hating leftist law professor as you might ever find. And yet even Tribe cannot defend Schumer’s threats against Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Here’s Tribe’s tweet on the subject: These remarks by @SenSchumer were inexcusable. Chief … Continue reading →
[See also ADDENDUM below.] Remember when Chuck Schumer threatened that the intelligence community would be out to get Trump if Trump did anything to restrict and even criticize them? Here it is, if your memory needs refreshing. Schumer made this … Continue reading →
See this. It won’t be happening before the November election, though.
Continue reading →It takes strength to hang tough through an experience like this: Longtime Republican politico K.T. McFarland said in a radio interview Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team pressured her for “20, 30, 40 hours of hell” to either cop … Continue reading →
He gets forty months, which is three and a third years: GOP operative Roger Stone was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Thursday after days of drama ensnaring career prosecutors, the attorney general and the president over … Continue reading →
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 →