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Trump has been indicted on federal criminal charges and his case was assigned to Aileen Cannon. Now what?

No surprise, this weekend, Trump vowed to stay in the race, even if convicted. “I’ll never leave,” he told Politico. I have said that Trump’s political needs are at odds with his needs as a criminal defendant: Trump can either behave like a normal defendant or he can try to be a right-wing hero and […]

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Donald Trump Borrows Timothy McVeigh’s “Defense”

The Rise of American Right-Wing Extremism From Timothy McVeigh to Stewart Rhodes “I am a political prisoner,” said Oath Keeper and January 6 insurrectionist Stewart Rhodes during his sentencing hearing, “and like President Trump, my only crime is opposing those who are destroying our country.” Rhodes vowed to continue to “expose the criminality of the regime”

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Trump was Found Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation — and He’s Appealing. Now what?

Trump scored a major loss when a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered him to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll for damages. He then filed a notice of appeal. Naturally, people want to know what this means and what to expect. (And no, the double meaning of “he’s

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Rape is a Means of Asserting Patriarchal Power (a history of rape laws)

Throughout most of our history, rape was a property crime. An unmarried girl was her father’s property. A married woman was her husband’s property. If a virgin was raped, the property damage was to her father. If she was married, the damage was to her husband. If she wasn’t a virgin and wasn’t married, there

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The Dominion-Fox Settlement and the “Thirst for Justice”

This blog post could have been called, “What to Expect from Future Defamation Cases against Fox.” On Tuesday, just before opening arguments were scheduled in the Dominion-Fox defamation case, the parties announced that they had settled: Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million. What followed the announcement was an outpouring of shock and rage. Here

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A Firehose of Insanity and The Republican Cycle of Radicalization

There was an explosion of news this week with a theme: The increasing radicalization of the Republican Party. First, we have the abortion pill mifepristone debacle in which a federal judge in Texas attempted to outlaw mifepristone for the entire nation. Here’s the timeline (I find that a bullet point timeline is the best tool

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The People of New York v. Donald J. Trump (documents explained + some helpful hints for understanding legal pundits)

The Statement of Facts You can find the statement here. The upshot: The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election . . . in violation of election laws. Throughout the remainder of the

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There is a method to the madness (along with actual madness)

Yes, Trump was indicted in Manhattan. After the indictment becomes available, I’ll do a reading of it here: https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield and then I’ll put it on this blog. You can check back midweek. If you’ve seen any of Trump’s recent rants, you know that they are unhinged and dangerous. If he keeps it up, he might

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It’s not about delay. It’s about obstruction and destruction.

Please excuse me while I have a mini-rant. Occasionally mainstream and social media commentators settle on a theory that projects their own reasoning onto Trump and his supporters. For example, at one time, the going theory was that Lindsay Graham was kissing Trump’s ring because Trump was blackmailing him. It was common for people to ask,

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“Rogue Prosecutors”

A number of people asked me to comment on the proposed Georgia legislation creating oversight of prosecutors. More specifically people asked me questions like this: I did some poking around to find out where this was coming from, and I found stuff like this: So I did some digging. First, the facts. There are two

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Dominion v. Fox News: Why Fox Lies (And Why Their Viewers Demand Lies)

As you may have heard, there were a few bombshells in Dominion’s latest filing in the Dominion v. Fox defamation case. To recap: We are at the stage where both Dominion and Fox are asking for summary judgment. You get a summary judgment if there is literally no evidence or argument the other side can present that

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