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Missouri v. Biden (the case seeking to limit the Biden administration’s contacts with social media platforms) is, at heart, a dispute about content moderation on social media. It’s also about whether right-wing conspiracy theories about Covid, vaccines, and the election should be allowed to spread unchecked and unchallenged. It also embraces the libertarian (and anarchist) […]

I. Keep Your Eye on Trump’s Lawyers A chaotic meeting on December 18, 2020 On December 18, 2020, Sydney Powell, Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne, and Rudy Giuliani came to the White House with unhinged ideas about how Trump should declare martial law, seize voting machines, and name Powell special counsel to investigate the already debunked

You can read The Washington Post article free through my subscription by clicking here. The sources for the piece are DOJ insiders who disagree with Garland’s approach. The article, therefore, is slanted in favor of their view. What we learn is this: There are DOJ insiders who disagree with Merrick Garland’s approach, and FBI agents who “resisted” opening

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

As I’m sure everyone knows by now, Trump and his valet Walt Nauta have been indicted. If you are keeping score, this is Trump’s second indictment and his first federal indictment. We are expecting indictments from Georgia later this summer, and the J6 investigation at some point but nobody knows when. You can read this

“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump reportedly asked in early 2018. Among other things, Roy Cohn was a mob lawyer. This is from NPR: Cohn was a legendary and controversial attorney who pushed legal tactics to the limits for a dazzling array of clients — from senators to mobsters and high rollers in sports and entertainment.

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”

Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin, opens by comparing the January 6 attack on the Capitol to McVeigh’s attack on Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. (Notice the small “No Trespassing” sign on the book’s cover. Perfect.) As recounted in Homegrown, McVeigh was calm when his lawyer visited him in prison. He was certain that the attack

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

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

I.  The Georgia Criminal Investigation (The Matter of Trump and Pals Trying to Overturn the Election Results in Georgia) At the end of January, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said that charging decisions were “imminent.” About a month later, when a reporter wanted to know where the decisions were, she clarified that she meant

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

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