Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…
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Sentencing dates for convicted Nxivm leaders Keith Raniere and Clare Bronfman have been postponed. Continue reading Nxivm sentencing dates moved back as Clare Bronfman may face longer time in prison
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.
[Regarding this story: Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns] Continue reading Unredacted Pentagon emails show the Ukraine mess was solely on Trump’s urging
[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. 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 Mormon church sitting on $100 billion in reserves against tax law, says ex-employee
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
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