First, some business. Sometimes I think, “Elon Musk would not drive Twitter into a brick wall.” Other times I think, “OMG Elon Musk is driving Twitter into a brick wall.” I have therefore opened accounts at Mastodon and Counter Social: Counter Social = @Teri_Kanefield Mastodon= @Teri_Kanefield@mstdn.social If you’re trying to decide which to join, it seems …
Note: Because of the danger that Twitter may go the way of MySpace, Facebook, and Tumblr, I figured I’d better go back to making videos for my YouTube channel, even though I totally hate how I look and sound. Besides, I’ve been told that there are people who don’t like to read–something I have trouble …
This week’s blog post picks up where last week’s ended. Last week I wrote about rule of law and asked the question, “Can rule of law survive in America?” It’s here if you missed it. Now let’s start with the timeline of Steve Bannon’s criminal charges: Fraud / Money Laundering August 20, 2020: Federal prosecutors brought …
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When Trump is gone—and one day he will be—another would-be Trump will arise to take his place. We will have a DeSantis or Hawley or Stefanik. If a major political party and half of the American voters want leaders who will defy the laws, you can’t solve the problem by putting all of their leaders …
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In January, as part of its investigation into the insurrection, the DOJ charged Stewart Rhodes and 11 other co-conspirators with (among other things) seditious conspiracy. Stewart Rhodes, a Yale Law graduate, founded the Oath Keepers, a large but loosely organized anti-government militia that helped plan and carry out the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The trial …
On Wednesday, I appeared on the Lincoln Project show We’re Speaking. Shortly after the interview, I thought of ways I could have given much crisper answers, which annoys me to no end. Anyway, most of the answers I gave came from recent blog posts and my FAQ page, with one exception: The first question Lisa and Maya asked …
Contents Part I: The Republican Travelogue to Hell Part II: Trump’s Special Master Lawsuit Backfires Part I: The Republican Travelogue to Hell Tim Miller’s Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell opens with a splash. America never would have gotten into this mess if it weren’t for me and my friends. …
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I. The Lawsuit (This section was written Saturday, September 17. For the stuff that happened since yesterday, skip to Section II: The Backfire) To recap, two weeks after the FBI executed a search on Mar-a-Lago, Trump filed a lawsuit demanding a special master to review the seized documents. He put forward the outlandish claim that …
Last week I wrote about Trump’s lawsuit requesting a special master to screen the Mar-a-Lago documents. To recap, his lawsuit was based on the outlandish claim that he had the right to possess the documents, a mindboggling claim given that most of the documents seized by the FBI were government documents, which, by law, must …
This is from one of the TV lawyers I talked about in last week’s blog post: “Trump has never suffered any actual consequences” or the common corollary, “Trump keeps breaking laws because the legal system is corrupt or failing” are what Yale professor Timothy Snyder calls an “Internet Trigger,” and I’ve called a “rage-inducing simplification.” Simplifications …
