No, I have no neighbor named Hamas. But there are a couple of million peaceful Gaza Strip residents who do. This exercise in rational thought is mostly about them. Let’s suppose that my actual neighbor is seen launching mortar rounds toward City Hall and doing so from his backyard. I may dislike City Hall, but […]
A CLB Appellate Case Note of October 20, 2023 was titled “Don’t Tell the Lawyer” and pertained to the damnable failure of prosecutors, a trial court judge, and a gutless public defender in the compulsion of testimony by a lawyer against his former client in a criminal prosecution. The lawyer testified to a confidential admission […]
The title to this offbeat Featured Article has nothing to do with church attendance or the viewing of NFL games. The title has to do with NBC’s Sunday morning program Meet the Press. I count myself among the regular viewers of the program, though my interest in the Sunday morning “talking heads” began a good […]
According to published accounts, September 30, 2023 is a deadline for prevention of a federal government shutdown. For shutdown prevention, Congress needs a “CR” or Continuing Resolution to allow more deficit spending, which seems to be the federal government’s favorite type of spending. It looks like a few House Republicans known as the “Freedom Caucus” […]
Update: On September 27, 2023 published news accounts reported King to be “back in U.S. custody,” in good health, and happy to return. The CLB hopes that the U.S. made no meaningful concessions to secure the release. The opinions of this Article are my own. The facts asserted are from published or broadcast accounts. While […]
On June 8th of this year, former president Donald Trump was indicted a second time for, in short, possession of classified documents outside of his tenure as president. He ignored requests to return said documents and impeded the investigation of his Mar-a-Lago home, where the documents were being kept. There is speculation about whether he […]
It’s in the Blog Introduction that I am an enthusiastic “little d” democrat and a less enthused “big D” Democratic Party member. The practice of “splitting” my ticket in the general election voting booth is not the problem so much as the absence of any worthy candidate from either of the two major political parties. […]
Recent discussion of the 14th Amendment has motivated me to take another look at this Reconstruction Era Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The most familiar part of the 14th Amendment is its prohibition of State deprivation of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” A close second is the prohibition of State denial […]
Looking at Article II Section 2 of the United States Constitution, one sees the presidential power to nominate and to appoint individuals such as Ambassadors and Judges of the Supreme Court. While it is accepted that Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of their appointing president, there is no Section 2 mention of the duration of […]
I have now seen the previously sealed 34-Count Indictment of former President Trump. The Indictment had been “sealed” pending Trump’s arrest. All Felonies. All of the charges are felonies or purport to be. This makes sense given the expiration of the limitations period for charging misdemeanors in New York. What other crime? The elevation of […]