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Weaponizing the Justice Department
The MAGA Republicans in Congress contend that the federal Trump indictments reflected the decision of the current President to engage in “weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent.” Mr. Trump has more specifically contended that such prosecutions have interfered with the 2024 Presidential election; these federal prosecutions are designed to enhance the prestige…
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The Russian Investigation and the Pursuit of Impartial Justice
The MAGA Republicans in Congress, who refer to themselves as the Freedom Caucus, demonstrate that, for some of its members at least, the name is an oxymoron—at least when its members are asked to support the freedom and self-determination of Ukraine. We ought to be determined to advance the freedom and collective self-determination of an…
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The 2020 Election and the Rule of Law
Our Commitment to law: In the original Massachusetts constitution, Article 30 states “[i]n the government of the commonwealth the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and…
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The Relevance of Catch and Kill
Elections and Fraud Some claim that the Biden Administration “weaponized” the justice system to arbitrarily go after a presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The lack of persuasive evidence of deliberate abuse of the justice system is just one of the problems with this thesis. At the least, legal actions involving Trump and his conduct of the…
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The Big Lie as Prologue/Prelude
The lessons derived from life’s experiences can sometimes come to us by literary or musical metaphors. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest tells us that the past is prologue, which means simply that history provides the context for the present. The past sets up what will follow and may help us predict what will happen in the…
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The Trump Dilemma on Abortion: Structure versus Substance
Federalism and the Right of Privacy. Roe critics have relied on some variation of two criticisms of the idea of a right to choose abortion. The first criticism is basically a structural argument that focuses on the values of federalism: it is that the Supreme Court cannot decide the abortion controversy because it is reserved…
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