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 221 – For Graham Platner and Amy is it 1925 or 1945?
The title of this HL number poses a question not just for Graham Platner but the Democratic Party as well. Platner’s 10 minute, 51 second public address “suspending his Senate campaign on July 9 (PLEAST WATCH) came over either as an “I’ll be back” or an audition for...
HL 220 – Three Cheers For Article II Section 1 Clause 5
During the scores of readings of the entire Constitution (half of those seeking comfort during the Trump presidencies) I’ve constantly marveled at how smart those guys generally were and frequently find something that never had registered in all previous readings and...
HL 219 – Trump’s Emerging Bad Deal with Iran Doesn’t Convert The JCPOA Into A Good One
Seemingly a thousand times “the nattering nabobs of negativism”[1] have correctly observed that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. The strait’s closure is just one measure of how much worse than the JCPOA Trump’s...
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.