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 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....
HL 201 – Zohran Mamdani meet Mario Procaccino, The Ghost of Election Future
There both is less and more than meets the eye in last Tuesday's variously-styled primary “bombshell” “tornado” or “watershed moment.” Then New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani came first in an eleven-person Democratic mayoral primary contest and almost assured he...
HL 200 – The Roland Garros Finals and A Moment for Women’s Sports
Serena Williams’ pronouncement the other day that “Women’s sports is having a moment” stimulated this review of the women’s and men’s Roland Garros finals, contested last weekend in Paris. The first tennis commentary HL has made in a long time, due mostly to our...
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.