This from Laurence Tribe, described as: “an American legal scholar who is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He previously served as the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School. A constitutional law scholar, Tribe is co-founder of the American Constitution Society.”

But “a testament to our tolerance?”

I guess so, but I would add our naivety and our ineffectiveness in dealing with evil.

We’re playing with fire, and the threat grows every day that Trump is a free man.

 

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Great job, Seth Silverton.

This goes back to what philosophers call the “coherence theory of truth.”  Everything fits together nicely, but in many cases, it’s all crap. E.g., you may believe:

In America today, we have a completely corrupt justice system that operates according to the whims of the radical left and the Deep State, and is hell-bent in opening our borders, ruining our economy, taking away our guns, weakening our military, supporting quack science like the climate change hoax and vaccinations, giving handouts to lazy people, removing our freedoms, blaming our problems on white people, and destroying our nation with socialism and anti-family values.

Then, if you watch Fox News, this belief system is heavily re-enforced by men with neckties who appear credible.

Without this belief system, Donald Trump would have been just another white collar criminal.

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The good news is that the J6 committee’s decision to refer Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution “will be unanimous.” 

The bad news is that this decision is essentially meaningless.  The DoJ doesn’t need a referral, and is not obligated to act on one if it arrives.

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Here’s an investment opportunity for people who a) believe the future of air travel is electric (which it is), but b) have no idea what they’re talking about.

What concerns me most is that it moves so slowly. Your shortish commute to work is now measured in hours. LAX to New York should be, I’m guessing, a week or so. A bit better than a stagecoach.

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I think we all know this, at some level.  The problem is that making personal sacrifices for the good of all humankind is something that very few people will do.

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Seriously, the avalanche of utter disgrace that is raining down on her and her family must be very difficult to accept, not that I sympathize.

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From the ad at left:

 

Hi, it’s Nikki Haley reaching out about my friend Herschel. The polls currently have him in a virtual tie with Senator Warnock, but Democrats are pouring record amounts of money into Georgia.

 

We need every conservative to step up and give $10 today to push Herschel over the finish line so Republicans can take back the Senate! Will you help?

 

Lady, really?  You have no shame whatsoever?  You expect people to take you seriously, and you’re campaigning for a pathological liar and hardcore moron?
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You generally don’t see criminal defendants in court say, “Sure I did it.  So what?”

Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the criminal justice system is based on a set of laws that have sharp teeth.

Explaining that he brought classified documents to his home because he had declassified them in his mind, or whatever the excuse of the day is today, is extremely unusual behavior for someone facing hundreds of years in prison for stealing documents and dozens of other even more serious crimes.

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Most Americans want to see Trump held accountable for his crimes, and we’re not happy that all this is dragging along, month after month.  Having said that, the legal expert interviewed here makes the point that this is an enormous RICO case.

The graphic below provides a sense as to how complicated all this is and, as a consequence, why it’s taking so long for indictments to be unsealed.  (more…)

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One of the many aspects that made life in 20th Century America pleasant was the fact that most business dealings, as well as most other interpersonal exchanges, were built on a bedrock of honesty.

My business partner and I had clients all over the world, and there were very few moments in all those interchanges in which anyone’s integrity was questioned.

I simply cannot imagine how all this would have gone down in an era where hundreds of Volkswagen’s top people are conspiring to rig a good portion of their 11 million customers’ cars’ emissions, or the brass at Wells Fargo decides it would be a good idea to defraud 2 million of their credit card customers.

Both of these scandals were several years ago; I hate to think how much worse it’s gotten.

Hell, we elected a common criminal to be President of the Effing United States, and the people who voted for him (most of them twice) still support him, even as the justice system is closing in on him with a litany of criminal charges and a $250 million civil suit.

The defense used by the 800+ insurrectionists in defense of their actions on January 6th: the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military ordered me to do that.

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