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 197 – Are Your Paychecks So Dear or His Feet So Sweet?
Awaking from our long Winter’s nap with HL 196 (3/31/2025) we commented at length about “what not to do” in opposition to Trump - citing as prime exemplars, Chuck Schumer, Columbia University and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, the law firm easily...
HL 196 – Columbia, Schumer & Paul Weiss – To Do and Not To Do
Before James Carville admonished moderates, liberals and those further left to lay low and allow Trump and the second coming of his cult to destroy themselves, Hopelessly Liberal had adopted that modus operandi. Our last post was on January 6. Several years from now...
HL 195 – Liberals Hope That Leaders in Syria and the Arab Street Won’t Screw Up This Opportunity
On December 8, 2024, Bashar-al-Assad fled Damascus for Moscow. His ouster from the Syria he had ruled for 24 years, succeeding his dad who had ruled for the preceding 30, was ironically but predictably the result of Israel’s response to October 7, 2023, and the...
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.