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HL 23 – Trump Wiretap Tantrum Evokes Twilight Zone Episode 73
President Trump’s latest puerile Twitter tantrum involves his claim that “sad” or “sick” predecessor Obama tapped Donald’s phone before he took office. Again, this caused many to search for analogies and references in art, hi and lo, to compare with Trump’s actions...
HL 22 – Betsy DeVos Squanders her Lord Jim Moment
As the leaking leakers leaked details of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos being bullied by Jeff Sessions and President Trump to drop her opposition to the administration’s rescission of the federal directive on transgender student access to bathrooms of their choice –...
HL 21- Use 25A and Draft and Enact 28A
Sticking with and doubling down on its early and repeated prediction that Donald will leave or be escorted from the White House within three years, his recent conduct makes it more likely that the end will come through operation of the twenty-fifth amendment, that in...
HL 20 – Jamie Dimon Tutors Trump on Gutting Dodd-Frank
At the February 3rd meeting of his “so-called” economic advisory council, President Trump announced his intention “to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank” and saluted Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, saying “there’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than...
HL 19 – A Nation of Laws Not of Judges or the People Who Appointed Them
The press coverage of various legal challenges to President Trump’s immigration and alien entry restrictions (“it’s not a tumor”) has increasingly focused on the judges who are adjudicating these cases in federal district courts and at the appellate level. It’s a...
HL 18 – Schumer as Hamlet in the Gorsuch Nomination
The moment has come for Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats to be or not. They and we have experienced the result of their reasonableness. We live with the result of their appeal to the electorate on that basis. They pointed to the unconstitutional intransigence...