Lloyd Constantine

Hopelessly Liberal

Lloyd is a litigator and author whose work in antitrust and civil liberties law and poor people’s advocacy in and opposed to government involves many important, controversial and heavily reported legal, political and business trends in America from the 1970s to the present.

Photo: Roman Iwasiwka

Lloyd Constantine
Photo: Roman Iwasiwka

Recent Posts

HL 169 – Beware The Radical Middle In 2024

HL 169 – Beware The Radical Middle In 2024

In our rural upstate town, Progressives and MAGAs peer warily at each other across New York Route 66, while hoarding their oat milk and bullets for the great war in 2024.  We see far more danger lurking in the radical middle.  Those truly undecided voters who will...

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HL 168 – CNN’s Trump Town Hall or Not?  The Wrong Question

HL 168 – CNN’s Trump Town Hall or Not? The Wrong Question

The trivial question being debated is whether CNN should have given Trump a mainstream platform to do his thing, as it did from 8 pm E.S.T. to a tad after 9 pm last Tuesday night.  To that our answer is “NO,” but mostly because it was too early for CNN’s...

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HL 167 – The Real Real on The Dominion/Fox Settlement

HL 167 – The Real Real on The Dominion/Fox Settlement

Most commentary about the Dominion/Fox News defamation settlement has been silly and ill-informed.  Especially the legal talking heads about how the law of defamation compelled the settlement and how this settlement will affect future defamation litigation. Now that...

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Books

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Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel

Lloyd Constantine began his career in legal services, representing impoverished clients in civil rights and constitutional cases. Decades later, he would make headlines for representing retailers…

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Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider’s Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer’s Short and Tragic Reign

In November 2006, Eliot Spitzer was on top of the political world, having won the New York Governorship by the greatest margin ever—far outdistancing his predecessors Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.

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