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Salting the Fields for Kavanaugh

6 Oct 20186 Oct 2018

The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation was always expected to be difficult. Mitch McConnell, for example, suggested that President Trump not nominate him because of his substantial paper trail that would theoretically…

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Double Jeopardy, Dual Sovereigns, and Blockburger

4 Oct 20184 Oct 2018

Now that Kavanaugh appears to be gliding into the Supreme Court after Republicans disingenuously but successfully reduced every serious concern about his nomination into the question of whether or not…

Corroding Society for Fun and Profit

3 Oct 20183 Oct 2018

Last night, just days after saying that he felt Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was credible and compelling after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump apparently decided that such uncharacteristic…

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Walking Back False Statements

25 Sep 201825 Sep 2018

The Special Counsel's investigation into Russian contacts and coordination has secured guilty pleas for making false statements under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 from Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Alex van der…

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Reduction to the Worst

24 Sep 201824 Sep 2018

Back when Katy Freeway was under construction, I’d entertain myself by reducing the telephone numbers on service trucks and 18-wheelers to just one number. It’s a very simple game. Take…

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The 2016 Election and Beyond

10 Sep 201810 Sep 2018

This post on the election of 2016 picks up where my last post left off. A quick note: in this series, I am using voting data for Presidential elections from…

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Presidential Election Voting Trends Since 2000

9 Sep 20189 Sep 2018

Part 2 of a Multi-Part Series Looking at Voting in the United States This post picks up where my last post left off. And as I warned in my last…

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Obama Speaks Out on Voting

7 Sep 20189 Sep 2018

The First of Many Future Posts Looking at Voting Adjusted version of image by E. Benjamin Andrews [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Axiomatically, former Presidents don't speak out against current…

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Presidential Immunity from Prosecution

14 Aug 201814 Aug 2018

I've long believed that the President is merely a citizen who happens to be President. In other words, apart from having a few extra perks of office--such as having access…

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Family Separation and “Enforcing the Law”

On average, only 29% of the country supports the Trump Administration's family separation policy at the United States' border. The President, apparently aware that his policies are deeply unpopular, nonetheless…