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Jehovah’s Witnesses giving advice about family happiness? Lord have mercy.

 Is an organization that rips apart families as a way to punish doubters really in a position to give advice about what’s best for family happiness? That’s the question that ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans asks in a new short video about a Jehovah’s Witnesses tract, “What is the key to happy family []

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Trump accused: Key quotes from the Articles of Impeachment

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment []

Sunday on ID: A documentary with questions about four Nxivm women who died

 A documentary film featuring blogger Frank Parlato, The Lost Women of NXIVM, will premiere on the Investigation Discovery channel tomorrow (Dec 8) at 9 pm. []

This 2014 op-ed by Jonathan Turley shows just how full of it he is now

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

In 2014 Jonathan Turley wrote this 2014 Washington Post op-ed piece that’s a pretty accurate take in response to impeachment myths that Republicans had been floating regarding Obama’s implementation of the []

Trump loses appeal to block bank records that could be more damaging than his tax returns

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this article: Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing over his financial records to Congress]

Yet another court (Second Circuit Court of Appeals) rules against Trump’s attempt to prevent disclosure of his financial records, here Capitol One and []

Trump whines about being left out of inquiry, but then turns down chance to participate

[Trump and Nadler]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

So Trump has declined Jerry Nadler’s invitation to participate in the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, scheduled to commence this week, which isn’t all that surprising since actually participating would undermine their argument that the inquiry was a sham []

Would Republicans stick to the ‘Garland Rule’ if Trump were on his way out?

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this NY Times story: Why Republicans will sidestep their Garland Rule for the Court in 2020]

If a SCOTUS vacancy opened on the morning a Democrat president-elect was to be sworn in, the outgoing Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t hesitate to []

Trump begins process of under-bussing Rudy Giuliani, and other impeachment news

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Impeachment Roundup for []

Looking ahead to an impeachment trial and the conflict it sets up between Roberts & McConnell

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

A motion ‘in limine’ is a trial motion to limit or exclude certain testimony or evidence, and the judge, in deciding what the jury can hear, considers how relevant that evidence is to the proceeding versus the potential likelihood that the evidence []

Beck tells Australian newspaper: ‘I’m not a Scientologist’

 When we learned that musician Beck Hansen was splitting up with his wife, actress Marissa Ribisi of the legendary Scientologist Ribisi clan, we wondered if it meant he was also moving away from []