Another shameful act of enabling Donald Trump by a cowardly U.S. Supreme Court this morning. The Supreme Court ordered the two Emoluments Clause cases, Trump v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 20-330, and Trump v. District of Columbia, 20-331, to be dismissed on the specious ground that now that Donald Trump is no longer … 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
A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel panned arguments from Donald Trump’s lawyers in opposition to the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s criminal subpoena of a third party for the president’s tax returns. POLITICO reports, Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump effort to block release of financial info: President Donald Trump’s drive to block Manhattan … Read more
Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr has always been a far-right Catholic culture warrior (Opus Dei) who subscribes to the theocratic Dominionist (Christian Nationalist) movement. See, William Barr Wants To Bring ‘God’s Law’ To America; and William Barr, nation’s top lawyer, is a culture warrior Catholic; and Bill Barr’s Invisible Crusade, for example. As a lapsed Catholic … Read more
In an unsparingly critical 30-page brief, retired Judge John Gleeson, tapped by Judge Emmett Sullivan as an amicus to argue against the dismissal of the Michal Flynn case that the Trump “Injustice” Department sought to dismiss, suggests that the Department’s arguments for letting Flynn off the hook conflict with its positions in other cases — and even in … Read more