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HL 70 – Andrew and Tish Go for a Rare Trifecta – Violating the Spirit of Three Important Constitutional Safeguards In One Shot
Knowledge of, faith in and fidelity to The United States Constitution has come a long way in New York State. From John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, two drafter/shepherds of the Constitution, to Andrew Cuomo and Letitia James. Steeply downhill it appears, as the...
HL 69 – Manafort Sentencing Spotlights The Life Sentence That Article III Imposes on Americans
This floating legal treatise will not offer yet another pronouncement on the 47 months imposed on Paul Manafort for crimes that the sentencing guidelines prescribe a term of 19 to 24 years. Nor the district court judge’s comment that Manafort otherwise had led a...
HL 68 – Hopelessly Liberal: The Black History Month Edition
February commemorates Black History. HL celebrates these important markers idiosyncratically. Not by recalling what was hammered into the head about Crispus Attucks but his own experience with what is being celebrated. Reflecting on what Martin Luther King, Jr....
HL 67 – Pat Won’t be Moving to Long Island City
Thomas Friedman had been touting the College Board’s findings that proficiency in two codes, the U.S. Constitution and computer science, most highly correlate with success in college and career. Reading this, and having just finished teaching a con law course at alma...
HL 66 – Hypocrisy and Irony Pervade Press Coverage of the Northam Affair
Let them, who would feel justly stoned and deprived of high office for doing something as racist as Ralph Northam did 35 years ago, launch the first projectiles. One bad part of what the press constantly refers to as “near unanimous calls for Northam to resign as...
HL 65 – The Press Made Grover Norquist and His Washcloths the Big Winners of the Shutdown
Before round two of shutdown/showdown begins on or about February 15, 2019, a useful exercise sponsored by H.L. and the George Santayana School of Not Failing to Learn the Lessons of History, is to list and rank the losers and winners in round one. The press, of...
