“The past is never dead. It’s not even past” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. I long ago made my position clear on the war crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime. The architects of illegal torture deserve to be prosecuted under the Nuremberg Principles for their war crimes, at least at a minimum, prosecuted under … Read more
Republicans have been trying for years to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren — an agency responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. Republicans were unsuccessful in killing the CFPB, but today the Supreme Court did give the president the freedom to fire the CFPB director. Donald … Read more
The lawyer for federal district court Judge Emmett Sullivan filed his responsive brief with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court on Monday, arguing that the Justice Department’s conduct in abruptly deciding to end the case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn was so unusual that it raised a … Read more
I’m going to have to start covering this case like an old radio serial show. “In this battle of good versus evil, in our last episode our hero Judge Emmet Sullivan said ‘not in my court you don’t’: U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan is most displeased, and he is having none of it in his … Read more
After listening to oral argument today, it became clear that there is a majority on the court ready to reconsider U.S. v. Nixon and Clinton v. Jones, and willing to devise a new standard for presidential subpoenas. It is yet another departure from precedent by the Roberts Court. And it will allow Donald Trump to … Read more