Will a Manafort verdict come soon, and what will it be?
Any prognosticators out there?
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Andrew C. McCarthy on the Mueller “perjury trap”
Another excellent article by Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review, this time on the way perjury traps are set. He starts out by talking about why Trump’s attorneys are saying that Trump shouldn’t talk to Mueller because of the likelihood … Continue reading →
Must-read article
Just read it.
Continue reading →Still another Rick Gates post
I keep trying to get away from it, but something about this story keeps gnawing at me. So here are some more details of Gates’ testimony against Manafort [emphasis mine]: On the stand, Gates testified that he and Manafort knowingly … Continue reading →
More on Mueller’s folly: Rick Gates’ testimony
I know I’ve already written recently about the Manafort trial and Rick Gates’s testimony but I feel the urge to link to this post by streiff at RedState because it contains some tweets with details of the courtroom shenanigans that … Continue reading →
Would you believe Rick Gates?
I certainly wouldn’t—not unless there was convincing corroborating evidence of the truth of what he is saying. And really, that wouldn’t be believing Gates—it would be believing the corroborating evidence. Here’s the situation as it now stands: Manafort’s former business … Continue reading →
The FBI dismissed Steele as a source but kept using him anyway
Byron York has been one of the reporters who has repeatedly taken on the difficult task of delving into the details of the Russia-Trump-collusion investigation by the FBI. What he finds usually isn’t pretty. And this is no exception: Because … Continue reading →
The vindication of Clarence Thomas
By Steven Hayward. Justice Clarence Thomas has long been a figure of ridicule and contempt, even hatred, from the left. Had he been a liberal, he almost certainly would have been their champion and hero: black, and raised in abject … Continue reading →
Manafort on trial
Paul Manafort’s trial begins today. As Liz Sheld writes: Manafort is not on trial for anything related to treasonous RUSSIAN collusion, he is on trial for working for President Trump’s campaign and for being a sleazy political consultant, which is … Continue reading →
Re-opening the debate on birthright citizenship
Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution: You have to read the whole 14th Amendment. There’s a clause in the middle that people ignore or they misinterpret — “subject … Continue reading →
Ruth Bader Ginsburg trolls the right
The right’s been going crazy about this statement by RBG: I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said Sunday, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least … Continue reading →
Devin Nunes on the Russian collusion investigation
Great article by Kimberly Strassel. Some excerpts: Mr. Nunes, 44, was elected to Congress in 2002 from Central California. He joined the Intelligence Committee in 2011 and delved into the statutes, standards and norms that underpin U.S. spying. That taught … Continue reading →