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Like many liberals and conservatives, your blogger is a longstanding and card carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union and contributor of money and sweat toward its efforts.  I constantly tell my civil liberties class how often the ACLU was and is a...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...