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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 was dangerously mishandling it, I’m confident, given that low bar, I can at least say something smarter than anything Trump conveyed over that time. Continue reading Trump’s 2014 jabs at Obama over Ebola don’t play so well during the Coronavirus era
“Mad” Mike Hughes, aged 64, died February 22 when his home-made steam-powered rocket crashed into the desert near Barstow, California. A video shot for an intended television show “Homemade Astronauts” to be aired on Discovery, Inc.’s Science Channel shows that the parachute which was supposed to brake the descent deployed prematurely and was torn off during the launch. Continue reading What daredevil ‘Mad’ Mike’s fatal rocket launch had to do with promoting a flat Earth
[Judge Jackson and Roger Stone]Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Roger Stone moved Judge Jackson to recuse herself from hearing his motion for a retrial (which motion is the reason he’s been remanded to prison). The basis for the recusal motion was nonsense — arguing that because the judge said at sentencing that the jurors served with “integrity,” she’s too biased to rule on Stone’s other motion arguing juror misconduct. Continue reading Judge rejects Roger Stone’s motion to step down from case for praising juror ‘integrity’
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Ignoring debate drama to impose vote-related courtroom drama instead. The 11th Circuit yesterday unanimously shot down Florida’s poll tax targeting ex-prisoners (specifically ex-felons, excepting convictions for murder and sexual violence), whose voting rights Florida citizens restored via a 2018 ballot referendum (“Amendment 4”), which measure passed with 65 percent approval. Continue reading Appeals court strikes down Florida law keeping ex-felons from voting because they’re poor Advertisement
[Judge David Casement]Coffeyville, in the southeast corner of Kansas, is best known for a botched double bank robbery in 1892 which cost most of the Dalton Gang their lives. Continue reading Kansas justice, where an unpaid medical bill can get you thrown in debtor’s prison
“Revolution is not nakedness!” is not the kind of slogan one would hear most places. But political protests in Iraq have taken an odd turn this week. Continue reading Protests in Iraq take a new turn, on gender issues
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California (the institution founded by L. Ron Hubbard’s onetime colleague in magick, Jack Parsons) completed assembly of the newest Mars rover, provisionally designated “Mars 2020,” on Wednesday. Continue reading New Mars rover delivered to NASA for July launch, 2021 arrival
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… It’s worth recalling just how far back Roger Stone goes with Donald Trump. Back in the early 1990s, just as Trump’s casinos were emerging from bankruptcy, Indian casinos were sprouting up as a result to a change in federal law. Trump viewed this development as a threat and spent more than $1 million on “lobbying efforts” against the Indian gaming industry. Continue reading Those halcyon days when Roger Stone fronted for Donald Trump against Indian casinos
[Stone, Trump, Barr]Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: WH Denies That Trump Pressured Barr To Reduce Stone’s Prison Sentence] The framing for most of the stories asks whether Trump pressured Barr to intervene on Roger Stone’s behalf, but that’s the wrong question because the answer is irrelevant. Continue reading Why investigate? — Barr so corrupt, he didn’t need to be told to intervene for Stone
It is difficult to obtain reliable biographic info on Chen Qiushi. From the videos he posts he looks even younger than his 34 years. He has a law degree, if we can go by a troll who posted multiple times on his videos (denounced as a government hack in replies), saying that Chen is only doing what he is doing now because no clients would hire him as a lawyer anymore. Chen calls himself a “citizen journalist” and reported from Hong Kong last fall about the protests, and then from Wuhan last month about the coronavirus outbreak. Since the evening of February 6 none of his family and friends have heard anything from him. Continue reading Chinese government puts ‘citizen journalist’ in suspicious quarantine over virus reporting
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