I find that rather stunning. About a recent poll: For Biden to start dropping, Democrats would have to stop thinking he’s doing a good job as president. Biden’s approval rating among Democrats in a Quinnipiac University poll released last week … Continue reading →
Most lawyers would have told Trump not to talk about the classified papers case outside of the trial. But last night in an interview with Bret Baier he certainly did talk about it. He must have thought this would help … Continue reading →
Dershowitz writes: There is a nefarious group that calls itself The 65 Project that has as its goal to intimidate lawyers into not representing Trump or anyone associated with him. They have threatened to file bar charges against any such … Continue reading →
From Legal Insurrection comes this example of many people eager to take back things they said or wrote some time ago about the lab leak theory of COVID’s origins: Professor Robert Garry, a respected microbiologist who works at Tulane University … Continue reading →
Commenter “Bauxite” writes: On page 5 [of the Presidential Records Act] – “NARA takes legal custody of records at the end of the President’s term.” The documents can be stored in a presidential library, eventually, but the presidential library has … Continue reading →
Trump has always been a fabulous showman. And so far his trial is giving him the opportunity for a lot of publicity. He stopped at a famous Cuban restaurant in Miami right after his arraignment, saying “Food for everyone!” Cuban … Continue reading →
I don’t agree with Barnes on a host of things such as foreign policy or the JFK assassination, but I have long found him to be very sharp on legal matters – after all, that’s his area of expertise. I … Continue reading →
From Red State, we have a post with the title “Oops! Democrats Did It Again – Trump Surges in Polls After Indictment.” Here’s the first paragraph: A classic definition of insanity goes something like this: doing the same thing and … Continue reading →
I think it’s always interesting to hear what Dershowitz has to say on any issue of law and politics, for the obvious reason that although he’s a lifelong Democrat he’s a reasonable and knowledgeable person. That doesn’t mean I always … Continue reading →
There’s a lot to digest today, all of it incomplete. So I’ll start with a little discourse on law. No system of law can be perfect or anything close to it. In the end, justice – or any approximation of … Continue reading →
Virtually everyone on the right has known for quite some time that our system of justice has become wholly political. There have been so many reasons to think that, but today we got what is probably the biggest one of … Continue reading →
Determined prosecutors can indict anyone. And they can convict anyone if they have judges and juries simpatico to their cause. Whether or not this was always true I’m not sure. But it’s my impression – and I’ve lived a long … Continue reading →