It’s exasperating to watch the American legal system bend over backward to protect a lawless man committed to its destruction, but here we are.
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Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
The foundational pin holding the American rule of law together is that no man is above it.
Women battered at home are five times more likely to be murdered if there’s a gun in the house, so people under domestic violence restraining orders, pursuant to federal law, can’t have guns.
During Donald Trump’s first impeachment over his attempt to extort Ukraine funding until President Zelenskyy “found” dirt on Joe Biden, Trump threatened the source of information about the incident. Trump said in a speech that whoever had leaked the information about his discussion with Zelensky was like a spy, and that “in the old days” spies were “dealt with differently.”
For a brief and illusory moment, it looked like the GOP had found its center, and the center had finally found its voice.
Last week, when Jim Jordan fell short of the necessary votes to become House Speaker despite Donald Trump’s strong-arm endorsement, Jordan and his allies unleashed an intimidation campaign.
For religious zealotry, economic inequality, and other key ingredients of radicalization, no other region in the world compares to the Middle East.
For the first time in US history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has been ousted. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, it is nothing to cheer.
Summary judgments are a tedious exercise in law and distillation. Following many months of written discovery and verbal testimony, a party who moves for summary judgment argues that no facts remain in dispute, the facts on the record are ready to be applied to the law, and the case is ready for a decision on the merits. Such was the posture of both sides in the New York Attorney General’s financial fraud case against Donald Trump et al.
Squawking about the nation’s debt after your party spent like drunk sailors on leave is like eating a rib-eye at Ruth’s Chris, then planting a fly under the bone to get a free meal. You ordered and ate the steak, sir. Yes, but I didn’t order the fly that came with it, and don’t you think your prices are obscene?
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