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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 a backdrop of a daily deluge of damning actual facts that John Le Carré would probably flinch at as cliched. Continue reading Russian’s $1 million to Parnas: Another stubborn fact for Trump surrogates to wave off Advertisement
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 that cop’s car, and driving drunk in that. Something so boldly stupid that it’s hard to believe it’s actually happening. Continue reading Rudy Giuliani is so off the rails now, it’s like he stole a cop car and is driving drunk in it
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 sensitive to appearances about due process. Continue reading Witnesses or no witnesses: How much of a sham trial will Republican senators put on?
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 the warrant anyway, and despite that Carter Page wasn’t crucial to what was ultimately found. Police circumventing the Fourth Amendment is common everywhere, and that truism holds worse outside the FBI. Continue reading In FBI probe, suddenly the Right cares about law enforcement and Fourth Amendment issues Advertisement
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 life?” Continue reading Jehovah’s Witnesses giving advice about family happiness? Lord have mercy.
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment articles… Continue reading Trump accused: Key quotes from the Articles of Impeachment
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. Continue reading Sunday on ID: A documentary with questions about four Nxivm women who died
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 ACA. Continue reading 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… [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 Deutsche Bank, the latter which was the only bank willing to lend Trump money. Continue reading Trump loses appeal to block bank records that could be more damaging than his tax returns Advertisement
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