Fascinating report in the Washington Post today about the Mormon church having much more money than anyone seems to have imagined.
Continue reading Mormon church sitting on $100 billion in reserves against tax law, says ex-employee
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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.
[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. Advertisement
Continue reading Jehovah’s Witnesses giving advice about family happiness? Lord have mercy.
Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment articles… Continue reading Trump accused: Key quotes from the Articles of Impeachment
Continue reading Sunday on ID: A documentary with questions about four Nxivm women who died
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
[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. Advertisement
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 for not allowing Trump to participate.
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 seat whichever sober-appearing warm body the Federalist Society could manage to scare up. Continue reading Would Republicans stick to the ‘Garland Rule’ if Trump were on his way out? |
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