Yesterday 37,077 new Covid-19 cases were reported. Also yesterday, Trump administration filed this Supreme Court brieft to end the Affordable Care and take away health care from millions of Americans. Timothy Snyder calls it Sadopopulism, and explains why modern fascists deliberately hurt their own constituents. Twentieth century fascists wanted power, but they were content not …
Q: If you’re a would-be fascist and you’re losing, what do you do? A: Two of the tricks in Trump’s (limited) bag are: “Get the fighters fighting” and “ignite a cultural war.” Here’s how you accomplish both with one Tweet: (Destruction of federal government property is already illegal: 18 USC § 1361) On the face …
Trump’s greatest con is that he is invincible. (I’ve talked about this in the past on Twitter) The Tulsa fiasco demonstrates what happens when a ‘strongman’ appears weak. Trump has been compared to Hitler. The better comparison might be Mussolini. Weber, in his classic essay, Politics as a Vocation, outlined three sources of authority for …
Information for this post is from Book 6 in my Making of America series, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was born in Baltimore in 1908. His interest in law, and his awareness of racial injustice was awakened early. A window in one of his high school classrooms faced the local police station. He listened as the all-white police …
A Quiz Believe it or not, my followers on Twitter asked for a test. So I made a Twitter Law Exam with questions taken directly from my posts. Don’t worry. You, too, can take the Twitter Law Exam. #1: Due process applies to: All U.S. citizens All persons in the United States Only people wearing …
Part I is here. (Information from this thread is taken from the report I’m currently working on for the Georgia Voter Protection Organization.) In March when the pandemic hit, the GA Secretary of State mailed applications for Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots to all voters on the rolls: 6.9 million. It was a good idea. …
I spent 15 hours on Tuesday in the Fulton County (Atlanta) Voter Protection “boiler room,” which is basically a group of lawyers handling problems coming from polling places. The Associated Press called it “chaos in Georgia.” It was beyond insane. Some people were in line for 8 hours. Here’s the short version from the viewpoint …
Here’s an excellent piece by Christy E. Lopez (A Georgetown Law professor and co-director of the school’s Innovative Policing Program) on what “defund the police” means. Not everyone has access to the Washington Post, so here’s a screenshot of the two main paragraphs: The problem is deeper than police: The entire criminal justice system needs …
Yesterday opened with the news that the job report was better than expected. Trump spent the morning crowing about it. Turns out the report was wrong. Trump knew, and lied. This is from Congressman Ted Lieu, who tells the truth: The Trump administration tells baldfaced lies, knowing they are lying, and knowing people will find …
Trump is sinking in the polls. Whether this is a temporary setback remains to be seen. (We only have five months until the election, so he doesn’t have much time to recover.) It seems to me that things started to go wrong for him over the weekend when the word went around Twitter that he …
