There won’t be a government shutdown over the issue of funding the wall. Did I think it would actually come to a shutdown? Probably not; the GOP has no stomach for it and Trump is savvy enough to know that … Continue reading →
Were Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels via Michael Cohen a crime of any sort? Bradley A. Smith at National Review says “no”: …the law — following our common sense — tells us that the hush-money payments outlined by the U.S. … Continue reading →
Here’s how lawfare works when the FBI wants to get you: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that … Continue reading →
Here’s the law, according to Mark Levin. But there’s no guarantee whatsoever that the rule of law will prevail, when partisan politics are involved (which is just about all the time, lately). Levin makes five main points. The first is … Continue reading →
The fixer couldn’t fix it for himself: Before leveling his sentence, Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and “lost his moral compass,” adding that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known … Continue reading →
In his recent testimony before the House of Representatives, James Comey presented himself as being something like a sleepwalker—he remembers nothing, knows nothing, and cannot even speculate on things he was involved in, much less ones that involved others in … Continue reading →
One of the most disturbing things about the war on Donald Trump is the differential application of the law and the political nature of decisions to prosecute. Andrew C. McCarthy describes the situation thusly: The major takeaway from the 40-page … Continue reading →
No surprise here. By the way, the lede in that article is very poorly written. Or maybe it’s very well written, depending on what the writers were hoping to convey. Let’s take a look: Former White House chief of staff … Continue reading →
I used to read memeorandum every day. But quite some time ago I stopped looking at it. It seemed that every single day I’d read the same headlines: Trump is finished and Mueller’s finally got him; Trump’s administration is in … Continue reading →
President Trump has chosen William Barr to be his next attorney general. My first reaction was: Bill Barr? Is he still alive? The answer, obviously, is “yes, very much alive”—and he’s not even all that old at 68. Barr was … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz keeps walking a lonely road as one of the few true liberals out there, trying to apply basic principles to cases no matter who might be involved and whether he, Dershowitz, happens to like that person or not. … Continue reading →
As so often happens, former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy sheds light on some legal-political news that no one else seems to have quite understood (and that includes me). The subject matter is Mueller’s charge that Manafort’s lies have abrogated their … Continue reading →