A combination of prosecutorial bumbling, dumb luck, compliant jurists, and winning the election allowed our new president to avoid a day behind bars.
Aileen Cannon
Posted inLaw and Justice
Chief Justice Roberts’s Rule of Disorder: Where the Trump Legal Cases Stand
Where the Trump Legal Cases Stand. The efforts to hold the felonious ex-president criminally accountable are stalled and even the New York State felony convictions are unlikely to lead to sentencing, but it’s not entirely over.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
The Feminist and the Fraudster
How Susan B. Anthony and Donald J. Trump Share a Moment
Posted inPolitics
Jack Smith’s Original Sin
It would have been harder, but instead of trying the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, the special counsel could have sought to bring it to court in D.C. Had he, we might be close to a verdict.
Posted inLaw and Justice
It’s Good to Be a Judge. For Some, a Little Too Good.
An unrestrained, radical Supreme Court appears to be encouraging unethical and arrogant behavior by judges.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Cannon Fodder: The Judge in the Trump Documents Case Sets An Early Trial Date, But That’s Not Happening
The jury is still out on Aileen Cannon, but her filing to start the former president’s trial in August shouldn’t be taken seriously. Here’s what could delay justice and why.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Miami Nice: The Trump Documents Plea Deal We Need
The criminal ex-president will never do hard time like he should, but the right kind of deal could mete out justice and spare us all a classified documents trial that will satisfy no one.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Delay and Recusal Might Save Trump
The 37-count indictment of Donald Trump is so damning and so meticulously documented with references to conversations with his own lawyers, video recordings, text messages, taped conversations, and the 45th president’s own words about the sanctity of classified documents that were the client not Mr. Mar-a-Lago, any lawyer would advise copping a plea. In the […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Donald Trump’s Executive Privilege Fog Machine
No one should be fooled by Trump’s claims of privilege over the Mar-a-Lago documents.
