Trump scored a major loss when a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and ordered him to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll for damages. He then filed a notice of appeal. Naturally, people want to know what this means and what to expect. (And no, the double meaning of “he’s […]

Throughout most of our history, rape was a property crime. An unmarried girl was her father’s property. A married woman was her husband’s property. If a virgin was raped, the property damage was to her father. If she was married, the damage was to her husband. If she wasn’t a virgin and wasn’t married, there

I.  The Georgia Criminal Investigation (The Matter of Trump and Pals Trying to Overturn the Election Results in Georgia) At the end of January, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said that charging decisions were “imminent.” About a month later, when a reporter wanted to know where the decisions were, she clarified that she meant

There was an explosion of news this week with a theme: The increasing radicalization of the Republican Party. First, we have the abortion pill mifepristone debacle in which a federal judge in Texas attempted to outlaw mifepristone for the entire nation. Here’s the timeline (I find that a bullet point timeline is the best tool

The Statement of Facts You can find the statement here. The upshot: The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election . . . in violation of election laws. Throughout the remainder of the

Yes, Trump was indicted in Manhattan. After the indictment becomes available, I’ll do a reading of it here: https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield and then I’ll put it on this blog. You can check back midweek. If you’ve seen any of Trump’s recent rants, you know that they are unhinged and dangerous. If he keeps it up, he might

Please excuse me while I have a mini-rant. Occasionally mainstream and social media commentators settle on a theory that projects their own reasoning onto Trump and his supporters. For example, at one time, the going theory was that Lindsay Graham was kissing Trump’s ring because Trump was blackmailing him. It was common for people to ask,

A number of people asked me to comment on the proposed Georgia legislation creating oversight of prosecutors. More specifically people asked me questions like this: I did some poking around to find out where this was coming from, and I found stuff like this: So I did some digging. First, the facts. There are two

As you may have heard, there were a few bombshells in Dominion’s latest filing in the Dominion v. Fox defamation case. To recap: We are at the stage where both Dominion and Fox are asking for summary judgment. You get a summary judgment if there is literally no evidence or argument the other side can present that

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:

  While I don’t have a publication date (sometime in late 2023 or early 2024) 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

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