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One of the harder things to wrap one’s head around in all this drama is figuring how a tight cast of characters all relate to each other and to their attorneys who may or may not be acting as attorneys. Continue reading Trump’s attorneys: an unaccountable crime network operating in plain sight
You’ve no doubt seen the headline going around today, that a hunter was killed by the deer that he shot in Arkansas. Continue reading Arkansas hunter evens the odds with antique-style gun, so deer killed him
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Self-Dealing in Ukraine: The Core of the Impeachment Inquiry] This is a smart, careful assessment by Philip Zelikow of the Ukraine situation, looking past the political circus aspects of the impeachment question but and into the known facts, what those facts mean in criminal liability terms (quid pro quo, self-dealing), and how the liability is stacking up for the key players — Giuliani, Mulvaney, Perry, Sondland, Volker.
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… [Regarding this story: Giuliani Associates Parnas And Fruman Plead Not Guilty, Raise Executive Privilege Concerns] Recently indicted Parnas and Fruman are threatening to invoke privilege because they were (a) working for Giuliani on behalf of the president; and (b) had retained Giuliani as an attorney.
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… As expected, ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony today was bad for the White House and Trump. It was expected because, if you recall, Taylor was the one who texted Gordon Sondland that he felt it was “crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
[Regarding this Hollywood Reporter story: HBO Taking Michael Jackson ‘Leaving Neverland’ Dispute to Appeals Court] This is pretty interesting. Michael Jackson’s estate wasn’t happy with HBO’s “Finding Neverland” documentary, so it looked to the boilerplate non-disparagement and arbitration clauses in a wholly unrelated 1992 contract between HBO and Michael Jackson relating to a Jackson concert HBO aired, and sued on that to force arbitration. Judge said fine. So HBO appeals. Advertisement
Trump: “You people with this phony Emoluments Clause” If it feels like “Emoluments Clause” is a phony thing cooked up to box Trump’s presidency in, know a few things first. Continue reading These are reasons the Founders included the Emoluments Clause Trump calls ‘phony’ Advertisement
Thanks to our friend Roy Edroso, we have long enjoyed the columns of conservative writer Rod Dreher, but perhaps not in the way Dreher intended. (That’s just our way of plugging our friend Roy — you should really read him if you don’t already — and to hint that we are not generally fans of Dreher’s body of work.) Continue reading What’s causing Christianity to dive in the U.S.? Um, seen Europe lately?
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