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 227 – It’s A Good Thing That The Lawyers Know Too Much
Long before law school I was told what a scumbag profession I was headed for. Most theatrically by Shakespeare when he wrote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”[1] And most poetically in Carl Sandburg’s verse explaining why “a hearse horse snickers...
HL 226 – I Will Watch The Execution of Nidal Hasan and Recommend You Watch As Well
As a staunch and active opponent of the death penalty since 1970, I believe that Pete Hegreth’s plan to telecast the firing squad execution of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan on December 3, 2026, will advance the cause of abolishing government executions in the...
HL 225 – Fraternities and Their Culture Are the Root Cause of All These Atrocities
Cornell, the Tompkins County District Attorney in New York’s “Southern Tier” and the rest of us have begun reinvestigating and unpacking the atrocity committed at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity chapter during the evening of October 19, 2024. That atrocity occurred...
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.