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.

Lloyd Constantine
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Recent Posts
HL 204 – The Wimbledon Finals and Another Moment
Last weekend’s finals at “The Championships” was a disappointing closing sequel to the Roland Garros opener of the 2025 edition of “the channel slam”. My review of the RG finals, in HL 200 (“The Roland Garros Finals and a Moment for Women’s Sports” June 12, 2025) is...
HL 203 – Kristi Noem Won’t Save The Poor Little Girls, Trump Might Replace Her with Henry Darger
Last November while sitting Shiva with a group of Boomers in mourning for the liberal democracy that their and The Greatest Generation built, one mourner said “the people who elected Trump have to suffer the financial, environmental, health and other consequences of...
HL 202 – Take What You’re Hearing About the S.A.L.T. Deduction With More Than a Few Grains
Among the scores of lies Republicans in Congress are spewing about Trump’s budget bill, there is one that has gone virtually unchallenged by congressional Democrats. First the lie, then the why – those feckless Democrats don’t touch it. The lie is about the S.A.L.T....
Media
LLoyd Featured on “United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper”
Lloyd is featured in an episode of CNN’s “United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper,” focusing on the fall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Books

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…

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 everfar outdistancing his predecessors Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.