The Hall of Fire

It's way too early to make that call.

The prosecution has rested, and the defense is now trying to call Robert Costello, which the prosecution is objecting to.

ETA: The judge is allowing only limited testimony by Costello. Still should be interesting to see what he says.

It is amazing to me how bad the coverage of this trial in the non-legal media is. The supposedly big news today is that Cohen admitted to "stealing" from the Trump Org by including $50,000 in the reimbursement for payment that he made to the tech company Red Finch when he didn't actually p...

I certainly think the ICC is right to issue warrants for Sinwar and the other Hamas leaders; there is no question that they have violated international law. I think the case for issuing warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant is more complicated. Nonetheless, I continue to maintain that the one is indepe...

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Here's what 80,000 people looks like.

Here's some interesting early 1980s commentary I've never read before from the far-left poet Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) about the importance of political incrementalism. Although Baraka was staunchly anti-capitalist, he warned against commentary he'd heard from others on the left about the last presi...

This shows the challenge that Biden faces. It's not that Democrats are unpopular It's he who is unpopular.

She's not even pretending anymore.

Words of wisdom that I fear many in the coming election will ignore.

Excellent thread from the one and only Roger Parloff explaining why the moment on Thursday when Cohen was shown to have misremembered one phone call probably isn't as much of a big deal as many in the media have made it out to be. https://twitter.com/rparloff/status/1792174175773212909 https://twitt...

And perhaps the most bizarre thing about the Alito story is the fact that we are just learning about now, almost 3 and half years after it happened. How is that even possible?

Where in the world is Rudy Giuliani? " Arizona grand jury has indicted Trump allies for 2020 election interference " ( Politico ). Donald Trump is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1." (Ken Chesebro is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 4.") Only some of the eighteen people who have ...

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The flip side of the Alito news is that perhaps it will help spark CJ Roberts to a more favorable decision.

An intruder broke into the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and attacked her 82 year old husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, injuring him significantly. While no motive has been established, it is reported that the intruder was yelling "where is Nancy" before attacking her husband...

I thought that would happen. I've had to do that change on posts that I copied on my phone. Perhaps when and if we upgrade the phpBB version that will change, but I wouldn't count on it.

And yet the polls will still say that Biden can't be trusted to run the economy as much as businessman Trump.

Two interesting notes from the transcript of the sidebar that began Tuesday's session, which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else. First, the witness that the prosecution had originally planned to call after Cohen was not, as I and others have speculated, their election law expert, but instead ano...

And just to be complete, Silmarillion?