Tag: #TrumpRussia
“Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” Or, Can’t the United States Protect...
From Wikipedia:
"Justice delayed is justice denied" is a legal maxim meaning that if legal redress is available for a party that has suffered some injury,...
If Betraying the Nation Won’t Do It, Nothing Will
This piece has run in several newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).
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Perhaps there is no “tipping point.” But if there is one,...
I’d Love to Be a Fly on Mueller’s and Rosenstein’s Walls
I do not claim to be a legal expert, and I don't even play one on TV. But I do read and watch legal...
Protect the Nation: Checking the President and Preventing a Trumpian Civil...
Yesterday, the American people gave the Democrats a mandate to act as a check on this lawless President.
Today, the Washington Post reports that this...
Mueller’s (Misplaced?) Caution and Trump’s Rising Approval Ratings
Have you wondered why it is that the percentage of Americans approving of the job Trump has been doing as President has been slowly...
How Should a Nation Deal with an Illegitimate Election?
Preamble:
I listened to a panel of some of the usual MSNBC legal experts discussing the question of how much threat to President Trump either...
Time for the Presumption of Guilt
It is a virtue of the American legal system that any defendant is "presumed innocent" until convicted in a court of law. To affirm...
What Trump’s “Treason Trip” Exposed about the Right
All this time we’ve been waiting to see what might be uncovered about whether there was “collusion” between Donald Trump and Putin’s Russia during...
Why Mueller Probably Shouldn’t, and Won’t, Subpoena Trump
(The "probably" in the title is my acknowledgment that these issues are complex, and that -- although I've been playing close attention on an...
How Every GOP Candidate Should Be Challenged (from Friedman’s “Trump and...
At one level, Trump's performance ("shameful," "disgusting," "treasonous") with Putin yesterday on the Helsinki stage contained nothing he has not shown before.
But at another...