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Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story: ‘Take her out’: Recording appears to capture Trump at private dinner saying he wants Ukraine ambassador fired]
A few things to keep in mind and reasons this is […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story: Constitutional Crabgrass: President Trump’s Defenders Distort the Impeachment Clause]
Yesterday I spent a few paragraphs deconstructing Alan Dershowitz’s argument (which he’s expected to make next week on the Senate floor) that “high crimes and misdemeanors” requires “criminal-like conduct,” whatever that’s […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
Whatever the senate impeachment trial winds up being, it appears it will resemble a motion to dismiss more than a trial, since McConnell evidently has 51 votes for a process that won’t permit a vote on witnesses until after the two sides […]
[Alan Dershowitz]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story: George Conway: Why Trump had to hire this legal odd couple]
I was never a Van Halen fan but nevertheless found myself wincing at a video of David Lee Roth in Las Vegas from a few weeks ago. He […]
[Three alleged white supremacists picked up in northern Georgia]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
The FBI arrested six white supremacists (three who entered the country illegally from Canada) in advance of a planned gun rally in Virginia where the FBI claims that a few members planned to “open […]
[Attorney John Dowd]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
After Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested in October, they somehow managed to secure John Dowd as their lawyer. But Dowd was also the president’s lawyer. Because Parnas and Fruman could conceivably be in conflict with Trump, Trump would […]
[Trump and Hyde]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
Lev Parnas’ lawyer delivered a bunch of text messages and handwritten notes to Congress, this coming after a prolonged fight over whether they could be disclosed at all — Republicans had been fighting it.
After a quick review, most of […]
[Baden and Epstein]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story: Why You Might Not Want to Believe Michael Baden, Celebrity Pathologist, on Epstein’s […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
In 2012-13, Donald Trump repeatedly signaled his cynical belief that starting a war with Iran was a smart strategy available to President Obama to raise his poll numbers and reelection chances. […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story: Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal […]
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