Keeping Trump off the Ballot This question came to me on Mastodon: Have you seen the Colorado decision on the 14th Amendment case to keep Trump off the ballot there? If so, can you explain why they would hold that the President is not an officer of the government? The 14th Amendment was drafted and […]
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The details of the following story are taken from this book by Thomas McInnis, a political science professor at the University of Arkansas: (Also, the story was all over the news.) Remember those anthrax attacks just after the attack on September 11, 2001? The federal investigation into those attacks took investigators to hundreds of scientists
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This is the conclusion. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are no Yankees here. Part 2: Creating
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The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle This is Part 5. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: “There are
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The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle This is Part 4. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are
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The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle This is Part 3. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are
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The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle When news becomes entertainment, facts get lost. People get mired in conspiracy thinking and they begin exhibiting authoritarian tendencies. This is Part 2. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and
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This is Part 1. It’s generally best to follow the advice given to Alice and the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” But if you must read out of order, here are all the links: Part 1: There are no Yankees here.
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In a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago, Trump, Gag Orders, and the First Amendment, I laid out the problems with prior restraints and preventing citizens from criticizing the government. The D.C. gag order began on September 15, The DOJ requested a gag order for Trump. The request is here. Basically, the DOJ wanted the
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I’ve been getting comments and questions like these on social media: Why isn’t there a gag order for Trump? he puts out dangerous statements constantly. I read that former prosecutors are worried about the danger Trump poses through his social media posts. Why isn’t anything being done? He needs pretrial detention, and he needs it
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A Change in my Blogging Schedule I signed a contract to write a book about the Bill of Rights for my favorite publisher (Abrams). It’s called Getting the Bill of Rights Right and it’s for young readers, basically ninth-grade level. Want to see how the proposal opens? Here you go: The Bill of Rights—which includes
Teri, what do you think of Mark Meadow’s potential perjury exposure after being caught lying in cross-examination? After a number of people asked me this, I started poking around to see where the question was coming from. I learned that a former prosecutor who often appears on TV posted this: “Meadows’ perjury in the removal hearing
If you’re having trouble keeping track of the details in all the criminal prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, you are not alone. Now that we are in the stage of pre-trial motions, we may need scorecards or bingo cards. Fortunately, criminal procedure is utterly fascinating. 🤓 First, a quick review of this week’s happenings in
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🎶 The devil went down to Georgia he was looking for some votes to steal. He was in a bind cause he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal.🎶 Put on your nerd glasses for this one. We’re diving into the legal documents. (I asked my readers once what I should
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(I posted portions of this on Tuesday, August 9) In 2021 and 2022, I worried that the “Indict Trump Now” people had an unrealistic sense of what a criminal trial is actually like. For example, this person told me: So about a year ago, I wrote this: The “indict him right now!” chants are premised