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Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Manipulation of Mortgage Funds] Whistleblower describes the same pattern that led to the 2008 crash, only with commercial mortgages instead of residential mortgages: systemic overvaluing of properties, which garbage numbers are packaged and […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: ‘DOA’: That’s what Trump says about House Democrats’ coronavirus relief package] Apparently mail-in ballots are the line in the sand for […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Today the Supreme Court is livestreaming oral arguments for three cases relating to the production of Trump’s financial documents including his tax […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… This aired on CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, and is one the most directly detrimental examples of science politicization I can recall reading about. […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Attorney General Bill Barr — Trump’s Roy Cohn — just saved Trump the political headache of pardoning Michael Flynn by doing it himself. No attorneys other than the one Barr installed signed the motion to drop the prosecution. Perfectly […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Trump needs two electoral blocs to win. The pandemic is driving a wedge between them.] Trump derives much of his support from finding boogeymen fashioned from our basest instincts to scare the shit out of the elderly, his primary constituency. […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America] This is mostly a recap of the last month or so since Trump agreed to extend social-distancing guidelines. If you’re paying attention there’s nothing especially new, but helpful in […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Regarding testing… I don’t know how much mileage Trump thinks he’s getting from the claim that ‘we’ve done the most testing of any country’ in support of “reopening” the economy, but it’s a claim that begs some […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking] Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman looks back at the tragic hole of lost time between January and March when Trump’s paranoia and magical thinking limited him to view the virus […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed suit against China, accusing it of “deceit, concealment, misfeasance, and inaction” in unleashing COVID-19 on the world. Wait, can foreign states be sued in US courts? Usually, no, and until 1952, […] |
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