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In 2016, he played a pivotal role in creating candidate Donald Trump’s list of 20 jurists and attorneys as potential nominees to the Supreme Court, which was updated in 2017 with 5 more including Kavanaugh and Barrett. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Koch Network to Back Alternative to Trump After Sitting Out Recent Primaries MSN – Isaac Arnsdorf (Washington Post) | Published: 2/5/2023 The network of donors and activist groups led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch will oppose Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, mounting a direct challenge to the former president’s campaign to win back the White House. [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 7:44 am
We were talking about the failure of ChatGPT to write "a poem about the positive attributes of Donald Trump" (when it easily composed "a poem about the positive attributes of Joe Biden").Most of the discussion at the link is about the problem of bias in ChatGPT. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Democrats Ramp Up Investigation of Kushner Family Business Dealings MSN – Michael Kranish (Washington Post) | Published: 12/7/2022 Democrats on a pair of congressional committees launched a new effort to obtain information about whether Jared Kushner’s actions on U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf region as a senior White House adviser were influenced by the bailout of a property owned by his family business. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Capitol issued its subpoena of Donald Trump, demanding testimony from the former president who lawmakers say “personally orchestrated” a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Record Number of Trans and Nonbinary People Are Running for Office MSN – Anne Branigan (Washington Post) | Published: 7/27/2022 In 2017, former journalist Danica Roem made history when she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, making her the first out transgender state legislator in the U.S. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Broken Redistricting Process Winds Down, with No Repairs in Sight San Juan Daily Star – Michael Wines (New York Times) | Published: 6/6/2022 The once-a-decade process of drawing new boundaries for the nation’s 435 congressional districts is limping toward a close with the nation’s two political parties roughly at parity. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 7:20 am
.*** A footnote about malapropisms, from the Wikipedia article, "Malapropism": [P]hilosopher Donald Davidson suggests that malapropisms reveal something about how people process the meanings of words. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Attorney General William Barr to Step Down Politico – Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney | Published: 12/14/2020 Attorney General William Barr is leaving his position, a decision that follows months of complaints from President Trump about the administration’s top lawyer. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Lev Parnas, oligarchs and a lucrative lobbying deal NBC News – Aubrey Belford, Adam Klasfeld, Andrew Lehren, and Dan De Luce | Published: 9/22/2020 On January 19, 2017, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected lobbyist serving as vice chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 2:40 pm by Bridget Crawford
Below the fold are the results of the 2020-2021 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 6:58 am by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel
The investigation covers pre- and post-election matters, and reportedly has come to include the unmasking of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the election in 2016. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
 According to the Court, Title VII allows those lawsuits for discrimination to proceed.I am grateful to Gerald Bostock, and the late Donald Zarda and Aimee Stephens, for their faithful work to bring these cases to victory. [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 4:34 pm by INFORRM
 Darling claimed in his latest book that Dykstra hurled a vulgar diatribe of racial insults at Red Sox pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd during the 1986 World Series. [read post]
29 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal ‘A Game-Changer’: Pandemic forces shift in black voter outreach Roll Call – Bridgett Bowman | Published: 5/21/2020 Success in November for Democrats may depend on turning out black voters, but a history of facing voter suppression has fueled skepticism among African Americans about voting by mail and a preference to vote in person. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Leslie C. Griffin
Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law. [read post]