The Recess Game Some brilliant Trump guy informed me that elections have consequences when my reaction to the announcement that Trump would nominate Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General was “no.” And he wasn’t wrong that elections have consequences, but that doesn’t mean anything goes. The glory day of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State was over. Whether […]
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The DoJ Is Bad, And Will Get Worse There are few things I care less to do than defend the career prosecutors at the Department of Justice, whether Main Justice or the lawyers who staff United States Attorneys offices across the country. In his essay, “The Federal Prosecutor,” Robert H. Jackson, then Solicitor General and later Supreme Court justice, asserted that the duty […]
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Tuesday Talk*: Will The “Least Dangerous Branch” Hold? With Republicans in control of two branches of government, the guardrails will be left to the third branch, the judiciary, if any guardrails there will be. The judiciary, as a whole, and the Supreme Court, in particular, have not always acquiesced to the unconstitutional and capricious acts of the president, whether it involved a Muslim […]
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Veterans Day 2024 In the olden days of the blawgosphere, we typically recognized holidays. Not that there’s much of a blawgosphere anymore, but to the extent there is, holidays seem to pass without remark. But today is Veterans Day, and I would be remiss if I let it pass unnoticed. There are people out there who have chosen […]
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When The Right To Video In Public Flips Remember, PINAC, photography is not a crime, when photos and video were taken of public police interactions? Remember how reprehensible “upskirt” photos could not be outlawed because they were taken in public, and there was a First Amendment right to take photos of anything in the public sphere? Remember how woke protesters, who demanded that […]
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