I'm worried.
As much fun as it is to bash Trump and revel in the possibility of a Cruz scandal, I believe that we Democrats need to ensure we are not overconfident and work hard this cycle. Our candidates (yes,...
View ArticleWhat we are seeing writ large is desperation.
Vile anti-LGBT laws in North Carolina and Mississippi, widely-held opinions that Muslims should be banned from entering the country, immigrants should be deported, our President is not an American,...
View ArticleLegal Scholars respond to Mississippi "right to discriminate" law
There is a great legal memorandum, written by scholars from Mississippi who specialize in the area of First Amendment rights, that utterly dismantles Mississippi’s new state-sponsored-hate law. Here...
View ArticleYet another reason Democrats must defeat Trump in November
This morning, on On Point, I heard Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) say something utterly terrifying.He said that Cruz would get behind Trump. Then he said “I see Ted Cruz as a Supreme Court justice.”Think of...
View ArticleHow? With what money?
As I listened to Trump’s speech last night, I engaged in a little game. I interjected “How? With what money?” after every one of his specious promises. After all, he promised another round of...
View ArticleThe perfect response to "Benghazi"
Paul Begala took down a Trump supporter who raised Benghazi with this elegant introduction to reality. Here’s a script for all of us who encounter “Benghazi!” as a reason to vote for Trump.Do you know...
View ArticleMake them all pay.
It is time for all of us to join together to make every single Republican elected official who has endorsed (or pledged to support, for those Republicans who like to play word games) Donald Trump pay...
View ArticleSo, how do we get to a 50-50 split in the Senate?
I’ve been seeing a number of prognostications saying that the Democrats have a good chance to achieve a 50-50 split in the Senate, which means control of the Senate because Tim Kaine (as VP) would...
View ArticleTop 10 reasons I won't be watching the debate tonight
During this interminable, bleak campaign season, a little humor is always helpful. (It’s better than sobbing hysterically.) So here, without further ado, are the top 10 reasons I won’t be watching...
View ArticleIt doesn't look like Obama will fire Comey.
From the Washington Post, about today’s White House press conference:White House press secretary Josh Earnest praised Comey as “a man of principle . . . integrity and talent” and said that President...
View ArticleNew ABC poll, follow the money, and false equivalence
So this morning Mrs. MusicianinLA had Good Morning America on, and George Stephanopoulos was positively crowing about the new ABC poll that shows Trump with a 46-45 lead. The media (has/claims to...
View ArticleOverselling your case
As a lawyer, I can assure you that the quickest and most effective way to lose a case is to oversell it.I have sat in courtrooms in federal courthouses and watched my opponents lose their case in...
View ArticleIs internecine war really helpful?
I love this site, I really do, but what I see going on here in many of the things I’ve read is only adding to my stress and anxiety. I hardly slept last night because of the horror of this election....
View ArticleAn open letter to Republicans (with facts)
Dear Republican,I have heard your calls for those of us who voted for Clinton to come together, accept the election results and give Trump a chance. About that . . . (And here, I’m going to get into...
View ArticleWe must demand action on guns
G. K. Chesterton famously wrote: “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and not tried.”Let me paraphrase: “Effective gun laws have not been tried and found...
View ArticleWhy Biden (indeed, any Democrat) has earned our votes
For anyone who is even remotely considering not voting for Joe Biden for any reason, let me make this perfectly clear.It’s the Supreme Court, stupid. Well, that and all other federal judgeships, too....
View ArticleIt's about SCOTUS. It should ALWAYS be about SCOTUS.
When we vote for a President, we vote for someone who can be in office, at most, for 8 years. What many Democrats, progressives, or liberals sometimes seem to forget is that a President’s appointments...
View Article"Both sides do it" got us here. It won't get us out.
I got pushed over the edge this morning by someone on Twitter who said of the debate, “everyone was interrupting everyone else” as though it was being done equally.The media’s false equivalency, trying...
View ArticleTough talk on dealing with repairing the damage to SCOTUS
Just FYI, IAAL and a member of the SCOTUS Bar.There is a lot of talk about what to do to repair the damage done to the Supreme Court by the GOP.One idea is to reduce the number of justices to 6,...
View ArticleCan we please get real about constitutional amendments?
In response to an earlier diary I wrote, I was told to forget about correcting the size and composition of the Supreme Court and to just focus on constitutional amendments. I have also seen other...
View ArticleReflections on my two breakups: the Lost Cause and Evangelicalism
I was born in the South. I grew up nursed on the stories of the Lost Cause (one of my forebears was a high-ranking officer in the Army of Northern Virginia) and taught that the Bible was literally...
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