The Hall of Fire

One possible answer to Karen Piper's question is that Rep. Barry Laudermilk is attempting to assist future attacks on the Capitol. https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1782558435650761171B Remember, it was Laudermilk who led a suspicious tour of the Capitol shortly before Jan. 6th. But there also may b...

A witness in this case testified in a deposition that Walt Nauta was told that Donald Trump would pardon him once he's again president.

I hear you. That said, Anthony Kreis later said of his concern with Michael Cohen's post: "It’s not about decorum. It’s about giving unnecessary new impeachment material." So it would seem that Kreis was considering the possibility of Donald Trump's lawyers asking Cohen about this tweet. I...

Celebrity endorsements don't mean much, but the actor Michael Douglas (who once played the U.S. president and currently portrays Benjamin Franklin in a TV miniseries) makes a good point on CNN : it appears that every member of President Biden's cabinet supports him while very few members of Donald T...

The only non-union Volkswagen plant in the world was located in Tennessee. Until the day before yesterday, when workers there voted -- over the warnings of several Republican governors -- to join the UAW. Apparently it's been decades since this happened in a U.S. auto plant. President Biden has iss...

I assume the reason "this is not helpful for the DA" is that Donald Trump's attorneys can now try to enter this tweet into evidence, presumably during Michael Cohen's cross-examination, as evidence that Cohen is biased against Trump. But doesn't that open the door for Cohen to explain why ...

A reminder that the "star witness" is almost as awful as the defendant. ... Two peas in a pod. Agreed, but what's not quite clear from that post, nor previously mentioned in this thread, is that earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump made derogatory public statements about Cohen, almost cer...

There apparently remain lots of unexplained details in the Sep. 11, 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass., which is officially unsolved but generally believed to have been committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev. Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar would go on to perpetrate the Apri...

Polls mostly continue to show Donald Trump leading President Biden, although the margin seems to be tightening. These are the most recent polls listed at 538.com: Apr. 14 -- Biden 49% vs. Trump 46% (Echelon) Apr. 14 -- Biden 41% vs. Trump 40% vs. Kennedy 11% vs. West 2% vs. Stein 2% (Echelon) Apr. 1...

I had no idea that it costs reporters in the range of $1,300 per day to obtain New York court transcripts.

But the court today announced that in this case, the transcripts will be made available free to the public by the end of each next business day.

Has there been any indication as to whether Donald Trump will testify in his own defense? If he does, here's what the judge ruled today that prosecutors may and may not ask him about his past interactions with the courts. They may ask him about (1) the recent civil fraud determination, (2) two conte...

The Daily Beast reports that the "legal document from Knight Specialty Insurance Company doesn't actually promise it will pay the money if the former president loses his $464 million bank fraud case on appeal. Instead, it says Trump will pay, negating the whole point of an insurance company gu...

The reports that I saw (which I have not tried to track down, at least yet) said that what changed Johnson's mind was being given access to the intelligence that showed why the intelligence community believed that it was be disastrous for not just Ukraine but for U.S. interests to not provide assis...

House GOP erupts into name-calling and fresh threats to Johnson over effort to pass aid This is the level we have descended to: GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden entered the 20-minute heated floor conversation as it was ongoing and dared his right-wing colleagues to move on the motion to oust Johnson, eve...

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson , a case in which homelessness has been criminalized. The conservative Washington Post columnist George Will wrote about this case recently that "Most of those who are homeless are unemployable casualties o...

I wonder if this helped push through aid for Ukraine. BBC: German spying: Two men held over suspected Russian sabotage plot The two men, described as dual German-Russian nationals, were detained in Bayreuth on suspicion of spying for Russia, prosecutors say. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said auth...

Turning again to U.S. sentiments about this conflict... I've seen multiple sources, including the New York Post , report that Jewish student was stabbed in the eye at Yale University yesterday by a pro-Palestinian protester, but none of them are entirely reliable, so handle with care. - - - - - - - ...

The risk of severe weather forced Donald Trump to cancel a campaign rally in North Carolina last night about a half-hour before he was due to speak (after his supporters had been there for hours). Earlier in the day, some Proud Boys were seen there calling for the release of January 6th insurrection...

The only non-union Volkswagen plant in the world was located in Tennessee. Until the day before yesterday when workers there voted -- over the warnings of several Republican governors -- to join the UAW. Apparently it's been decades since this happened in a U.S. auto plant. President Biden has issue...

I forgot that in the 2016 recording that Michael Cohen made of himself and Donald Trump discussing payments to be made to "our friend David," i.e., David Pecker, the owner of the National Enquirer , that Trump said of Pecker, "Maybe he gets hit by a truck." (This was reported in ...