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Just weeks ago, I commented on how President Trump was making it impossible for Attorney General William Barr to do his bidding, despite Barr’s obvious interest in doing so. The problem was that Trump kept telling everyone what he should have been telling no one. In that case, it was that he wanted Barr to… Read more.
The Justice Department alarmed voting-law experts Thursday by announcing an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in northeastern Pennsylvania, a case immediately seized upon by the Trump campaign as evidence of a dark Democratic conspiracy to tamper with the presidential election. President Trump also appeared to cite the case, telling reporters at the White House… Read more.
President Trump has had many humiliating weeks. But this one might just take the cake; and it’s not even over yet. First, came reports that his niece has written a family exposé that promises to make Mommie Dearest look like a lullaby. The book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s… Read more.
No doubt you recall Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s congressional testimony. She presented a very credible allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Her testimony should have disqualified him. But the intemperate and incredible way he defended himself proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he was unfit to serve. Despite all that, Kavanaugh… Read more.
Constitutionally, the US government is composed of three co-equal branches. Yet one of those branches, the Judicial, has become little more than a mantelpiece. After all, Republicans and Democrats now routinely adorn it in their partisan image, respectively. And both parties seem to think that winning control of either or both of the other two branches,… Read more.
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Even if Obama nominates an appellate judge like Sri Srinivasan to replace Scalia, Republicans will fight to their political death to delay, until they effectively block, his appointment. This is noteworthy because, just three years ago, the Senate confirmed him 97-0 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,… Read more.
Yesterday lawyers for and against Obama’s landmark healthcare reform began three days of arguments before the Supreme Court. What is truly remarkable though is that the arguments the lawyers are proffering in Court are essentially the same as those politicians proffered in Congress when the healthcare bill was being debated two years ago. I have written many commentaries on… Read more.
To listen to his critics, you’d think President Barack Obama signing into law the Patient Accountability and Affordable Care Act (healthcare reform) in March 2010, which made healthcare affordable for over 40 million uninsured Americans, constituted an even greater blight in the blighted annals of American history than President Andrew Jackson signing into law the… Read more.
