The Honorable, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near...
SCOTUS is grappling with two Trump cases right now, neither of which they ever wanted anywhere near their "hallowed" chambers. They want a way out of both the ballot access issue and Trump's weird, novel "Presidential Immunity" claim. This...
Let's talk Federal Sentencing Guidelines. It's not a catchy subject. And the guidelines themselves are complicated as hell even for lawyers. For us laypersons they are downright dense. Just coming up with the "stock" recommendation take serious work and...
I'm not kidding. From the headline you might think you've accidently logged into The Onion but it's for real. Team Trump filed their response to Jack Smith with SCOTUS. Today. WTF? Hence my question of whether the world has...
In yet another entry by Donald Trump into the "you can't make this s**t up" file the motion Trump's lawyers filed with SCOTUS today opened with a well-known Yogi Berra quote. Really. I happened to turn on the news...
I'm sure we all did this as kids—get excited about something and then go to mom, but she thinks that "something" is too risky and says "no." I know I did this as a kid, and then I'd go...
"Time is of the Essence." I first saw that in a legal context that applied to me back when I was married and we made our first offer to buy a house. In effect it means that once in...
When Judge Aileen Cannon permitted Donald Trump's attorneys to unseal a batch of classified documents related to the classified documents case, she may have accidentally sealed her own judicial fate. Cannon, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court...
This is fresh news and there will be lots of parsing of the Appeals Court ruling denying Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution. So, I might have to eat some of my words but here we go: In what...
Okay, so it's not officially official that the earliest we might see Trump on trial in DC is mid April but practically speaking we now know that's the case. There was a (very) short blurb up by Raw Story...
