New York changed its double jeopardy law in October 2019 specifically for Donald Trump and his cronies and his adult children. Should they leave the White House with a pardon in tow, New York can still prosecute them In recent months, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has accelerated his criminal probe of the Trump Corporation. … Read more
President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris have introduced nine new members of the incoming Administration’s COVID 19 response team. They also warned that the current Trump Administration’s efforts to distribute vaccinations have fallen short and more work will need to be done in order to fulfill the Biden/Harris’s teams goal to have 100 million vaccines … Read more
Two recent books that deserve no publicity are pedaling this idea. Telling the truth about women’s lives is a radical act. Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote the book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenin 1991 about what happened when women told the truth. The introduction is entitled, “Blame it on Feminism” which is … Read more
In the first volume of his memoir “A Promised Land,” former President Barack Obama recounted a story about Mitch McConnell now President-Elect Joe Biden told him about passing a bill the then Delaware Senator championed. According to Biden, the Political Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief Moscow Mitch looked at his friend, the … Read more
Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe was a guest on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last night, argued that Trump’s pardons to absolve the crimes of his friends might be crimes themselves if they’re issued to obstruct justice. Tribe explained to Lawrence O’Donnell why it’s important for the next administration to investigate and prosecute those … Read more