SCOTUS 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleTrump’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...
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