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Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story… Giuliani associate received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch’s lawyer: prosecutor]
While Trump surrogates are breaking their brains to conceive of a conspiracy theory from cheesecloth and fairy dust that might exonerate him if you squint just so, it’s against […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this story… Giuliani returns from Ukraine with new, very questionable “evidence” that the Bidens committed “multiple crimes”]
It’s hard to come up with a decent analogy for what Giuliani is doing right now, but imagine getting pulled over for drunk driving, stealing […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
Just as the House has the “sole power” to impeach, the Senate gets to conduct the trial. Since the House Republicans spent so much time feigning outrage about the supposed lack of due process, you’d think the Senate Republicans would be especially […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
[Regarding this New York Times story by Charlie Savage: We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.]
The FBI’s conduct in obtaining the Carter Page warrant is pretty bad, even if it seems likely that they’d have gotten […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
Impeachment Roundup for […]
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