In honor of Black History month, I thought I’d share some of what I learned while researching this biography of Thurgood Marshall: You may want to grab your favorite warm beverage and settle into a comfortable chair for this one. (Citations are in the book). Only one of Marshall’s grandparents was enslaved when the Civil …
On Monday I was anticipating the release of the Fulton County special grand jury report, thinking that would be the most interesting legal news of the week. Nope. The most interesting revelations came from Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. I. Dominion v. Fox News To recap: Dominion, the manufacturer of voting machines, is suing …
Former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit the Manhattan DA’s office last year in a huff over how the newly elected District Attorney Alvin Bragg was conducting the Trump criminal investigation, has written a tell-all book. A timeline will lay out the progress of the investigation and offer a context for the Pomerantz-Bragg saga: August 2019: …
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While I don’t have a publication date (sometime in late 2023) I do have a cover. To celebrate–and because I had to spend most of the week working on this–I thought I’d share some of the research that went into writing the text for this book. Disinformation as a Means of Achieving and Consolidating …
First, the most significant bit of news that went under the radar this week The DOJ charged former FBI official Charles McGonigal with concealing $225,000 in cash that he received from an outside source. McGonigal was also charged with taking money from Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, who, if you recall, was one of Paul …
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This is for the people who come to me and say some form of: Teri, you just don’t understand how much despair the general public is feeling about the farcical justice system we have. Keep in mind that the “general public” in the above comment refers to a subset of people in a particular media …
A federal judge in Florida sanctioned Trump and his lawyers $938,000 for that silly RICO lawsuit he brought against Hillary and others. Yes, he has to pay Hillary Clinton. Want some fun? We can read the sanctions order together 🤓 then I’ll answer questions. (The sanctions order is here. Trump’s original lawsuit is here.) Basically, last March, …
There is an important seditious conspiracy trial happening. So that we can all follow along (I could use the review myself) I went back to the indictment, which is here, to get back up to speed. In the last seditious conspiracy trial, two defendants Oath Keeper leaders Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were convicted of …
To create fairness, our legal system and the federal government have grown increasingly complex. My question is whether the complexity has grown beyond too many people’s capacity to tolerate it. Q: Can democracy survive in America? A: (Spoiler) I don’t know. Can people tolerate this much complexity? I begin with history and facts about our current system because …
* * * I updated my comprehensive analysis of the current state of Twitter, how to create a true public square, Twitter’s future, and the various alternatives. If you have any of these questions, please see this post: Twitter: Should I stay or leave? Which is the better alternative, Mastodon or Post? But what about the …
