He Changed The Face of America Only one of Marshall’s grandparents was enslaved when the Civil War broke out—the grandfather for whom he was named: Thoroughgood Marshall. Thoroughgood escaped slavery during the chaos that ensued when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. He went to Baltimore and blended in among the free African Americans. He […]
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On Monday I was anticipating the release of the Fulton County special grand jury report, thinking that would be the most interesting legal news of the week. Nope. The most interesting revelations came from Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. I. Dominion v. Fox News To recap: Dominion, the manufacturer of voting machines, is suing
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Former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit the Manhattan DA’s office last year in a huff over how the newly elected District Attorney Alvin Bragg was conducting the Trump criminal investigation, has written a tell-all book. A timeline will lay out the progress of the investigation and offer a context for the Pomerantz-Bragg saga: August 2019:
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This piece is in progress. The art of using lies to consolidate power goes back to ancient times. A guy named Darius of Persia (522 BCE to 486 BCE) carved what is now called the Behistun Inscription into the side of a cliff. The inscription tells the story of how he came to power. If