Teri Kanefield

The Supreme Court’s Latest Abortion Case: The Intersection of Law and Politics

June 29, 2020 October 12, 2020

In another blow to the Fox-Trump-GOP Evangelical base, the Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion restrictions. I don’t think the MAGA people will be happy about this. [I typed that in the understatement font] Decisions like this one are going the way they should go. Nobody can predict with perfect accuracy what a court will …

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Sadopopulism and Fanaticism

June 26, 2020 June 26, 2020

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 …

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Sadopopulism and Fanaticism

June 26, 2020 October 12, 2020

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Igniting a Cultural War

June 23, 2020 June 23, 2020

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 …

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Igniting a Cultural War

June 23, 2020 June 24, 2020

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Trump’s Greatest Con

June 22, 2020 June 22, 2020

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 …

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We Can All Be Social Engineers

June 19, 2020 October 12, 2020

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 …

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A Pop Quiz and more Trump NDAs

June 16, 2020 June 16, 2020

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 …

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A Pop Quiz and more Trump NDAs

June 16, 2020 June 16, 2020

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Chaos in Georgia, Part II

June 12, 2020 June 12, 2020

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. …

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