. . . and get the hip waders ready. The next few weeks and months may feel like the longest you’ve lived through. Trump will launch a few more psyops operations against the American people designed to terrify you and make you believe he can cheat and pull this off. Don’t fall for it. Don’t …
Trump is in the hospital with COVID, and the Trump-FOX-GOP has an existential problem. The strongman myth requires a strongman. COVID was supposed to cull the weak, who would die willingly to save the “economy” for everyone else. Q: What do you do when the leader himself is stricken with COVID? A: Embellish the myth …
The National Election Task Force spent much time writing up legal briefing demonstrating why state legislatures cannot appoint its preferred slate of electors to override the will of the people after the election. Reading this meticulously researched and cited piece of scholarship, I was struck by how much time lawyers had to spend debunking this lie. …
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[Click here to read on the Just Security website] If you’ve spent time on social media, you’ve probably been scared into thinking that Donald Trump and the Republicans have the 2020 election in the bag. Cheri Jacobus, a Democratic political strategist and pundit, recently tweeted that “Trump’s Supreme Court will overturn the election results when Biden wins. …
Go figure. The New York Times was the first to get Trump’s taxes. Here is an excellent (and very readable) analysis from Just Security on the legal implications of the NYT bombshell article on Trump’s tax returns. The author is a professor of tax law at NYU School of Law. There’s a core of Trump’s …
This morning, my Op Ed appeared in the Washington Post. If you have a subscription to The Washington Post, you can read it here. If not, click here for a PDF version. Spoiler: if Trump wins this, it won’t be because he masterminds a way to get state legislatures and courts to keep him in …
[Click here to read on the Washington Post website]. The drama Tuesday night in Wayne County, Mich., over whether to certify the election results was the perfect illustration of President Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election and install himself as the winner — and also of why he’s not succeeding. Trump’s efforts are failing, …
One of my followers on Twitter suggested that Trump supporters don’t understand that he poses a danger to democracy. I disagree. There may be a few Trump supporters who don’t understand the danger posed by a president who openly says that the way for him to stay in power is to “get rid of the …
Something happened today on Twitter: My mentions today were flooded with people assuring me that Trump doesn’t need legal grounds for challenging the election. He can challenge the election without cause, trigger a war, and keep himself in power. Here’s an example: Or some variation of that. I won’t add more screen shots. You get …
First things first. Would you like to read about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early life (and a bit about the history of women and law)? I’ve made the first 9 chapters of one of my books—Ginsburg’s early life—available free. Click here to read the first nine chapters of Free to Be Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Teri Kanefield. Ruth …
