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HL 72 – The 25th Anniversary Edition
By this 72nd post it should be clear, at least to HL, that Hopelessly Liberal is a chronicle of survival and adherence to constitutional norms and the rule of law during Trump’s presidency. Private law firms are businesses, but their business also is a learned...
HL 71 – College Admissions Scandal Ushers in the Silly Season
Reaction to and commentary about the college admissions scandal is a silly season sprinkled with liberal doses of hyperbole, feigned shock, but mainly inapposite and excessive reactions. These began right after the reflexive “what do we wish for:” A. I hope my...
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...
