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HL 91 – What Was Your First Reaction to What Alan Dershowitz Said? Remember in November
Each of us had a first reaction when hearing Trump sex worker Alan Dershowitz respond to a Ted Cruz question with the answer “If a President does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that...
HL 90 – Let Us Now Praise Famous Old Men and Woman
HL 90 is in praise of a certain sister and brothers over 70 years of age. It is really not about whether the quintet of septuagenarians seeking the presidency (Warren, Trump, Biden, Sanders and Bloomberg) are too old for the job nor whether some among them are...
HL 88 – Federer’s Trump-like Attempt to Destroy the Davis Cup
How can we possibly compare Roger to Donald – despite the former being more lovely and temperate? Let HL count a few ways and with all apologies to W. Shakespeare, E.B. Browning and K. Cobain. Both men to date have been very successful in pursuit of their apparent...
HL 87 – At Any Time For Any Reason
Most lawyers and teachers of law know and have a responsibility to explain to others that lots of pure hogwash, pretending to be law, is being stated over and over again during the impeachment hearings. Two, stated ad nauseum, and particularly pernicious, because the...
HL 89 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Breaking Up Apple and Google – They Tried to Dismember Each Other
The trade press headline read “Apple Pay . . . Tramples Google Pay and Samsung Pay.” But the story was ignored in mainstream press such as the New York Times. There the headline was “This Man May Be Big Tech’s Biggest Threat.” The report was about Representative...
HL 86 – Enter the Chief
Chief Justice John Roberts is about to emerge as a major player and possibly the closer in the last perilous year – give or hopefully take a few months – of the Trump presidency. There is a slight bit of ambiguity and doubt in the prediction. The Greatest Closer had...