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Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… I’m seeing a lot of people whining about media overreaction, evidently believing that this is an overblown overreaction to a bad strain of flu. Well, I’ve read a lot of stuff and can do math and these takes, which the president himself […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… As of March 8, the CDC had only administered 1,707 coronavirus tests, that low figure rationalized by the idea that containment is still possible — simply test and isolate only those who had traveled between China or had been exposed to someone […] 
[Judge Garaufis and Keith Raniere] Convicted Nxivm leader Keith Raniere filed a motion for a new trial today, saying that some of the witnesses against him in last year’s federal prosecution committed perjury during their […] 
[A stunt that didn’t age well.] Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… A week ago the ultra-conservative CPAC conference took place, the day after Trump called the novel coronavirus a “hoax.” One of the CPAC attendees evidently had the virus and came into contact with a number of elected […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… I’m going to try and not make this about gender, but it’s hard to explain the electorate’s rejection of Elizabeth Warren without at least conceding the part it […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… I’m reluctant to dive into the election debate dumpster fire but here goes anyway. So that you’re aware of my bias, I think Elizabeth Warren would make the best, most effective president. But never mind that because that outcome appears very unrealistic […] 
[The unstable orbit of Earth’s temporary satellite] On February 25, Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona tweeted that since February 15 his team had been observing a small object, now catalogued as 2020 CD3, to ascertain whether it was a natural satellite of the Earth. There is a lot of […] 
[Trump going viral] Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… So a Health and Human Services (the CDC’s parent agency) official raised a concern about that agency’s handling of the return of Americans returning from Wuhan China, specifically that those officials — all non-medical professionals — were ordered to to […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… The Trump Campaign today sued the New York Times in New York state court for defamation over an opinion piece, which is kind of all you need to know if you already know that where the plaintiff is a political figure, defamation […] 
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… I’ve avoided writing about the coronavirus epidemic because I don’t feel particularly qualified to say smart things about it, but given that ignorance didn’t stop Donald Trump from tweeting about the Ebola virus 49 times in Oct-Nov 2014, mostly about how Obama […] |
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