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Lawyer, former federal and state prosecutor, independent legal analyst and contributor France24, adjunct HEC Paris. Father, loud spectator of college tennis matches. Same handle on the former Twitter.
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WAIT WHAT? THE TARIFFS ARE ON HOLD? I JUST STARTED BUILDING MY FACTORY!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

In this late stage of the autocratic takeover it probably is most helpful for true patriots and loyalists to the constitution to stay at their posts until forced out. But admittedly this can be hard.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A great deal of organized disinformation from oligarchic interests has gone into diminishing Keynes because of how his work exposed much of the sophistry used to justify the ills and excesses of extreme income inequality.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Stephanie Ruhle means well and puts on Biden advisor Bharat Ramamurti, who may also mean well, to opine on the legality of Trump's tariffs, and instead of confessing that he has no idea and has not analyzed it, just gives out his "honest" impression that he heard other people say they are legal. 1/2

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Trump has crippled the US military-industrial complex with ham-fisted tariffs. China, the dominant global refiner of rare earth minerals, is retaliating by cutting off these exports to the US. They are critical to weaponry such as the F-35. It would take the US years to catch-up even with a plan.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Believe it or not this carnage can be stopped in the courts. Trump has no congressional authority to impose these tariffs. The authority he cites, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) has nada to do with tariffs and has never been used to justify tariffs in its 50 year history.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

CNN is as complicit. They had on Rep. Carlos Gimenez who makes Mullin look like a Nobel laureate in comparison. The oblivious interviewer nodded along stupidly while Gimenez declared that Trump only occasionally golfs, nothing like Biden. Then he segued into now is the time to buy stocks.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court held 90 years ago that a prosecutor's duty is not to seek victory but rather that justice is done. [He] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Recall that while Trump left work early to socialize with Saudi petrol billionaires paying him massive golf course fees, he ran from not only from the market bloodbath he triggered with his tariffs, he ran from the US ceremony honoring the fallen US troops in Lithuania on NATO's front lines.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Recall that not only did these whistleblowers risk their jobs to report Paxton's actions to federal investigators, Paxton admitted the reported conduct and to illegally retaliating against the whistleblowers. Still the Biden/Garland DOJ declined to prosecute Paxton.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Swalwell: To Trump I say: Get your ass off the golf course and face the people

submitted 7 days ago • 208 comments

In a nutshell: the NC appellate court has concluded that the instructions from the state authorities last November that voters followed were legally incorrect, and therefore those 60,000 votes will not count unless those voters comply with new instructions within 15 days.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump tariffs and recession may be embarrassing Congress into waking from its years-long stupor. Congress has abdicated its constitutional obligation to regulate commerce. Republicans in both chambers are expressing support for legislation reclaiming authority Trump is abusing, likely illegally.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

There are several similarities between Trump’s sanctions on BigLaw firms and his tariff sanctions on nation-states. He abuses and tries to leverage his power to arbitrarily impose sanctions and make his targets negotiate concessions to him one by one. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Given that Congress can block presidential tariff proposals through legislation, and the Senate just passed a bill to block them for Canada, it can and should do the same for the rest of the "idiotic" tariffs. Stop pretending Congress has no power to fix this.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when John Fetterman was warning before the presidential election that Musk could make the difference for Trump and Republicans in Pennsylvania, and maybe he did? How the turntables.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 10 days ago • 1388 comments

Barbara McQuade brought out on MSNBC to defend BigLaw Wilkie Farr by urging the audience to view Wilkie as the victim of Trump extortion - rather than collaborators facilitating an autocratic takeover.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Hats off to Cory Booker for this feat of herculean eloquence. Nothing in Senate history compares. The only speech of similar length was back in 1953 when Strom Thurmond railed against racial desegregation. But Thurmond mumbled and read from historical speeches, neither eloquent nor noble.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hoosier Natasha Fatale says what

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

What many observers know, but many do not, is that Trump studied, experienced, and learned firsthand the tactics of McCarthyism from its mastermind Roy Cohn. Cohn served as counsel for both McCarthy and Trump.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy that Senate Democrats either couldn't think of this or were too chicken to think of using their authority over tariffs until now.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment