A Change in my Blogging Schedule
I signed a contract to write a book about the Bill of Rights for my favorite publisher (Abrams). It’s called Getting the Bill of Rights Right and it’s for young readers, basically ninth-grade level.
Want to see how the proposal opens? Here you go:
The Bill of Rights—which includes the guarantee that no person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law—was written by enslavers who themselves deprived others of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.
At the same time, the Bill of Rights presents a soaring and far-reaching vision of fundamental human rights. It solidifies a federalist system designed to create communal autonomy. In the words of constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar, the Bill of Rights “stands at the high temple of our constitutional order—America’s Parthenon.
Therein lies the central paradox of the Bill of Rights. The struggle to resolve this paradox continues to the present day.
I signed the contract a few months ago, which means I need to start writing. 😂 Also, yes, I know. Getting the Bill of Rights Right may be banned in Florida.
That means I’ll be changing my blogging schedule from weekly to whenever.
I’ll still be blogging, but not as regularly.
Upcoming Trials
When the trials begin, I may post more regularly.
The trial for New York AG Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud case against Donald Trump, his family, and his company is scheduled to begin on October 2, 2023 and to end by December 22, 2023.
The Georgia trial for Trump’s co-conspirators Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro is scheduled to begin October 23, but much could change by then. The RICO case right now feels very fluid.
Trump’s pretrial motions are due in October for the DOJ J6 trial. I expect Trump’s pretrial motions to be tissues of nothing, so other than having fun pulling them apart, I doubt there will be much to talk about. On the other hand, we will know from the DOJ’s responses more about the government’s case.
The Place to Chat
Since last year when Musk took over Twitter and began driving it into the ground, I have been getting to know a few other social media platforms.
My preferred platform right now is Mastodon because it is now part of the fediverse and other platforms, such as Threads and Post, have indicated that they plan to join the fediverse by means of Activity Pub (or other bridges).
What the heck do you mean by the fediverse, Activity Pub, and other bridges?
For an answer, see this blog post.
To find me on Mastodon, click here.
On Mastodon, I often answer questions, like this.
I also write longer explainers on occasion, like this one (which I considered as a blog post topic for this week.)
Have you tried Threads yet? If so, you can find me here. I haven’t done much there yet, but I may if Threads picks up steam.
If you have questions about criminal law
I get a lot of questions and comments like these:
Teri, you just don’t understand how frustrated we are watching our farcical criminal justice system.
I am so sick of Trump and this never-ending nightmare.
Why hasn’t the DOJ done anything about all the Republican lawbreaking?
For responses to any of the above comments, or if you have questions about criminal law and why things take so long, start here.
In fact, if you never read my Criminal Law FAQ page (or you haven’t read it since I updated it) please take a look.
If you have questions about why the DOJ investigation took so long, start here.