Trump’s Win In Iowa's Caucuses Was Narrow. Perhaps It Shows Why He Will Lose...
Numbers don’t lie. Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus vote by 51%, compared to 21.2% for Ron DeSantis and 19.1% for Nikki Haley. About 110,000 people turned out, all Republicans (though some may have...
View ArticleSCOTUS could give Trump his delay, decide his two big cases, and not do...
This is an entirely speculative look at the two big cases looming before SCOTUS — Colorado’s Supreme Court decision keeping him off the state’s ballots. (Trump has yet to file his appeal.) And the...
View ArticleThe Documents Case — Could Trump Turn a Trial Into a Big Win … for Himself?
Much as we want the Department of Justice to charge Donald John Trump for his possession and misuse of classified government documents, that prosecution might be just the case Donald John Trump...
View Article"This man cannot remain in power." Did this piss Putin off? If not, why not?...
For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.So concluded President Biden’s speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. It ended his tour of diplomatic meetings — NATO, G-7 and a summit of European...
View ArticleDoes Trump have Corrupt Intent? Will we know it when we see it?
Obstruction of justice is a crime of intent. To be precise, of Corrupt Intent, which is a term serious people find elusive. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just asked Donald Trump to come forth and...
View ArticleTrump Makes It Easier for the Mentally Ill to Buy Guns. And Signs It in Secret!
So despite all the photo ops of The Donald signing one proclamation after another, this one he saw to it was signed in silence and buried in other news.From the Washington Post (bold emphasis in the...
View ArticleGuns Galore ... ISIS and the NRA - Perfect Together
“They can buy guns” ...In a front page article in The New York Times —"How a Secretive Branch of ISIS Built a Global Network of Killers"— Rukmini Callamachi and her colleagues "pulled back the curtain...
View ArticleSo, What IF Donald Trump is Off the Ticket? A Fantasy, Sure, but Let's Test...
A palace coup? Not exactly, but here’s a way it might work. The Republican National Committee hasa formal rule for the occasion:RULE NO. 9 Filling Vacancies in Nominations (a) The Republican National...
View ArticleDear Hillary, What Brilliant Possibilities for Your Running Mate!
Dear Hillary Madam President soon-to-be,News has broken about the choices at the top of your list for VP. We here at Campaign Strategy Central cannot contain our excitement!Both Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)...
View ArticleSandy Hook Lawsuit: Discovery is Allowed to Proceed
Discovery can proceed even while the judge considers motions to strike the complaint, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled yesterday. The ruling is a major step forward for the...
View ArticleThe Sandy Hook Lawsuit ... What the Judge Actually Decided Last Week
On April 14, 2016, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis held that she did have jurisdiction to hear the case filed on behalf of nine of the children and adults who were killed or seriously...
View ArticleSCOTUS Sets Second Amendment Stun Gun Case for Hearing: Caetano v. Massachusetts
Jaime Caetano’s conviction for carrying a stun gun in her car for protection against an abusive ex-partner has energized the US Supreme Court. In a unanimous per curiam opinion issued this morning, the...
View ArticleSCOTUS Refuses to Hear Assault Weapons Appeal. Thomas says 2nd Amendment now...
Does the Second Amendment forbid bans of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines?Not now. Until at least the next Court term next year, pro-gun-rights advocates will be sulking.The case was...
View ArticleHomeless Domestic Abuse Victim Convicted of Carrying Stun Gun. Second...
This is not a hypothetical case. Caetano v. Massachusetts is on the US Supreme Court’s doorstep. It offers constitutional questions for resolution — several of them — presenting issues SCOTUS has been...
View ArticleWhere Guns Come From ... and Where They Go
How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws… is the headline in this morning’s New York Times. Where guns used in crimes come from.The graphics below those headlines are maps of the United States and...
View ArticleNOT Breaking News: SCOTUS, pressed to review assault weapons ban, says ... To...
Friedman v. City of Highland Park has been scheduled for discussion at four successive SCOTUS conferences. The case is a challenge to a ban of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines by a northern...
View ArticleSCOTUS Makes the Gun Guys Wait, Defers Hearing Bans on Assault Weapons and...
Faced with astonishing arguments from pro-gun advocates, SCOTUS continues to defer taking an appeal in a Second Amendment gun rights case.A city's ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines is...
View ArticleBREAKING GUN NEWS: Lyons, IL, Agrees to Major Gun Shop Reform Proposals
In a unique approach to gun reform, a community coalition of Chicago residents affected by gun violence sued three municipalities on the edge of the City of Chicago earlier this year.The lawsuit was...
View ArticleFederal Judge Returns Newtown Lawsuit to State Court. Where It Belongs.
Shortly after Soto v. Bushmaster was filed, pro-gun interests sidetracked it. Now, nine months after the case was filed, it is back in state court where it began."All my clients seek is an opportunity...
View ArticleIn Gun Violence, It's Never the Gun!
Look there. Or, look farther --- way over there. But don't look here. It's never the gun. It's the shooter, who is deranged, so we should address mental illness and cure it. It's a protest against...
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