The Hall of Fire

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 1:14 am Uh, should this perhaps be grounds for recusal?

Won't anyone think of the children?

L. Breent Bozell was sentenced today. L. (Leo) Brent Bozell IV, who sometimes goes by the nickname "Zeeker," a 45-year-old Pennsylvania man, is the scion of a very influential Republican family ... [and] participated in the events of Jan. 6th. Bozell IV was convicted of ten counts includin...

One year later... Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to Rittenhouse The problem with self-defense arguments is that they generally favor the living over the dead. If you threaten me, and I try to defend myself, and you then feel threatened and kill me to defend ...

Rep. Rich McCormick, Republican of Georgia, is divorcing after reports that he was seen "caressing a colleague on the House floor." McCormick's wife responded to questions about the divorce as follows: "Ask Rich and his colleague. ... I'm sure he will not be forthcoming." The McC...

Ah, thanks for that correction. I thought the defense argument was, in part, that Michael Cohen did this on his own (and as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself) out of the goodness of his heart rather than at the direction of Trump and then Tru...

Or to put in another way:



(Because Justice Alito is following the lead of Senator Menendez.)

Uh, should this perhaps be grounds for recusal?

The Dow did not remain above 40,000 today and in fact closed slightly down (-0.097%) from yesterday, but the Biden campaign still seized the moment:

The U.S. millitary has completed construction of a pier for delivery of food and other humanitarian supplies to Gaza.

Donald Trump today, speaking outside the courtroom, appeared to acknowledge that he was a party to the non-disclosure hush money agreement with Stormy Daniels. One part of his defense has been to claim that he had no knowledge of that agreement until after the fact. In this case, if the prosecutors ...

Speaking of Justice Thomas, he still won't say whether or not he paid back the principal of the $267,000 loan he received in 1999 to purchase his RV, i.e., whether the loan was really a gift and thus subject to income taxes that he should have paid.

Timing! I like this effort to bring the truth about Donald Trump's presidency out of the memory hole ... "If you went back in a time machine and described Trump's COVID response and coup attempt to Republican voters in 2016, they would have accused you of being a hysteric." In May 2017, wh...

Not only did Robert Hur testify today (apparently to no great effect), but House Democrats released the transcripts of Hur's October interview with President Biden. The Department of Justice had provided the transcripts of this interview to a Republican-led House Committee that asked for them. That...

Justice Clarence Thomas, of all people, wrote today's 7-2 decision upholding the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency devised by Elizabeth Warren and created by Obama administrations that helps people avoid scams. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented....

For the first time ever, the Dow Jones rose above 40,000 today. That Wall Street Journal article says this is "a milestone that appeared implausible little more than two years ago when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to cool an overheated economy. Gloom and doom forecasts aboun...

The link I put here: This morning, President Biden informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that he would not be participating in any events they scheduled this year, and his letter made a decent case as to why the Commission's format doesn't serve the Amercian people... is a link to a tweet ...

Sen. Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey facing a twice-superseded indictment on corruption charges, gave a speech in the Senate today complaining about that. "Senator Menendez, Charged in Bribery Scheme, May Blame His Wife" ( New York Times ). And in the opening statements of Sen. Bob M...

Mark Joseph Stern expects SCOTUS will restore the legislature's map for this year's election in accordance with the "Purcell principle" (which says maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election) but there's a good chance that next year the Court will use this case to scrap what remai...

Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, today publicly demanded that Netanyahu "make a decision and declare that Israel will not retain civilian control of Gaza, that there will be no Israeli military rule, and that an alternative to Hamas...

Meanwhile, the New York Times: