Trump signs the stimulus bill
I see this move as being motivated by (a) the fact that if Trump had vetoed the bill, Congress was able to override his veto anyway or pass it next session; and (2) he was looking to the January 5th … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Law
Who is George Gascon, LA’s newly-elected DA?
I wrote about LA’s Soros-backed DA George Gascon previously in this post, and you can read more here. In summary, Gascon supports a sweeping leftist overhaul of the entire prosecution system in LA County in a way similar to that … Continue reading →
Shutting the door on voting fraud investigations
From Sarah Hoyt, on the failure of the courts to hear any evidence in the election fraud cases: You know what could have fixed it? The courts taking the cases and allowing for an examination of the evidence. The fact … Continue reading →
No, Justice Roberts wasn’t screaming at the other justices about Bush v. Gore and riots
At Red State, streiff writes the following. It concerns the story going around that Justice Roberts pressured the conservative justices not to take up the Texas case, screaming in a meeting among the nine justices that, “I don’t give an … Continue reading →
What’s Raffensperger’s game in Georgia?
We all know how important the Georgia runoffs are. I realize that if the GOP retains the Senate it merely buys a little bit of time to stop the worst excesses of the Democrats from coming to pass now, but … Continue reading →
Barr resigns
There are no dull news days anymore. Although of course it’s probably about 99% certain that Barr’s career as AG would be coming to an end anyway in a few weeks, he decided to get out of the heat of … Continue reading →
How far will Democrats go to loosen election procedures in order to ensure continual victory?
This chaotic 2020 election and the subsequent SCOTUS rejection yesterday of the Texas lawsuit have highlighted the enormous influence election fraud in big cities in swing states can have on the final outcome of a presidential race. We already knew … Continue reading →
On judicial philosophy, liberal vs conservative
[NOTE: Something tells me that now might be a good time to revisit and add to some ideas I expressed in this post from two years ago.] Remember the brouhaha that ensued when Trump called a judge who ruled against … Continue reading →
SCOTUS refuses Texas lawsuit for lack of standing
You can read some of the details at Legal Insurrection. Excerpt from the opinion: The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas … Continue reading →
Barr may have known about the Hunter Biden investigations prior to the election…
…and kept mum about it. That doesn’t surprise me at all, if true. My reading of Barr is that he’s an old-fashioned by-the-book guy, and that although he sometimes acts as if he understands the enormous stakes, he still feels … Continue reading →
Oh, that Hunter Biden, says CNN and the FBI
The right has known about this sort of thing since the Hunter Biden laptop story broke, not long before the election. I said “broke,” but perhaps I should have said “tried to break but only caused the slightest of ripples … Continue reading →
A good summary of the legal issues in the Texas et al. SCOTUS case…
…can be found here. Recommended reading. In particular: Texas’s lawsuit is a procedural creature differing greatly from the Bush v. Gore case about the 2000 election. Unlike Bush v. Gore, which traveled to the Supreme Court on appeal, Texas’s lawsuit … Continue reading →