Every year, the ABA Journal publishes its “Blawg 100” comprising the top legal blogs (aka blawgs). They are taking nominations in three categories: (1) blawg; (2) podcast and (3) twitter feed. Many of you are familiar with my work in this area: My blawg – Internet Law Center’s Cyber Report (whose newsletter has won an LA …
The Perils of Being Led by the Bankruptcy King Trump Chooses Ideology over Jobs July 16, 2017 President Trump is currently proposing major changes to three industries that account for approximately one-third of the U.S. economy – health care, energy and the internet. In each case, the decisions are primarily ideologically based, providing red meat …
You may remember the Hillary Swank film, “The Freedom Writers” (which was adapted from Erin Gruwell’s book “The Freedom Writers’ Diary) recounting how an idealistic young teacher connected with a racially polarized Long Beach class by teaching tolerance and getting them to communicate about the conflicts around them. Soon they were reaching out to students … Continue reading
A memorandum prepared for Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr by then-University of Illinois Law Professor Ronald D. Rotunda asserting that a sitting President may be impeached has surfaced. Rotunda, now the Doy and Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Chapman University, had also served as assistant majority counsel for the Watergate Committee Rotunda’s … Continue reading
For all their talk of wanting unity (which they define as doing exactly what they say), Sanders followers have been steadily talking down the DNC and Hillary and perpetuating the myth that Bernie Would Have Won (BWHW) and that he is the most popular politician in America. One such Sanderista is a former journalist now … Continue reading
California Congressman Brad Sherman has filed an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump. H. Res 438 asserts one article of impeachment only – for obstruction of justice. The resolution is co-sponsored by Al Green (D-TX). Sherman explained: As the investigations move forward, additional evidence supporting additional Articles of Impeachment may emerge. However, as to Obstruction … Continue reading
It’s Time to Speak Up to Save Your Internet Today is the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality, in which more than 50,000 people, sites, and organizations, including Amazon, Etsy Facebook, Google, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Netflix, OK Cupid, Reddit, Twitter and Vimeo, will demonstrate to oppose the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) plan to … Continue reading
Donald Trump and “The Perfect Storm” The Danger of Inaction July 5, 2017 I spoke with a documentary filmmaker once who explained that great tragic stories are often a “perfect storm” of bad decisions in a system that seemingly had been in place to prevent disaster but which ultimately made it inevitable. Donald Trump is … Continue reading
From Code 45 Trump’s Wilsonian Presidency It is hard to find comparison’s in American history for the first 147-days of the Trump Presidency. It is, however, decidedly Wilsonian. Woodrow Wilson, the former Princeton University President and great internationalist, you ask? No – George Wilson, the grumpy neighbor from Dennis the Menace. Trump’s signature policies to … Continue reading
Reposted from Code45 Understanding Trump’s Calamitous Climate Change Decision in 20 Tweets #1 – CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL The Weather Channel's response to Trump's Paris pullout was potent and perfect. https://t.co/nm3chKi5Yc pic.twitter.com/5u7P1orxMH — Slate (@Slate) June 1, 2017 #2 – IT IS NOT JUST AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE, IT IS A HEALTH CRISIS Lancet Countdown's … Continue reading
JFK, Trump and the Tragedy of Tolemac May 28, 2007 In claiming he will “Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump is evoking some pre-Vietnam era of prosperity where the world drove American cars and “we won wars”. Maybe he is evoking the storied days of Camelot when President Kennedy led the nation back from a recession … Continue reading
In comparing Canada and the United States in their statements on Ramadan, you will see that one country is led by a bright, articulate leader and the other nation is led by Donald Trump. Trudeau’s statement is sincere, respectful and inclusive, while Trump spends approximately half the message on terrorism. Trump equates Islam with terrorism. … Continue reading
President Kennedy was killed when I was only six-months old. I have no memory of a living Jack Kennedy, but that does not mean he was not a major force in my life. Growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in New England in this era, his presence was felt in the photographs, busts and even … Continue reading
In 2011, Public Policy Polling (“PPP) sampled voters in Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina on attitudes about the Civil War and Jim Crow and saw a sizable minority wished that the South had won the Civil War and that interracial marriage remained illegal. MS GA NC Wish South Had Won Civil War 27% 23 21% — … Continue reading
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards and I am pleased to be included for the 12th Consecutive Year with my 21st and 22nd nomination. Winners will be announced at a June 25, 2017 gala that will honor NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jake Tapper. Cyber Report … Continue reading
Choosing the Republic Over the Republican Party: A Challenge to Rep. Katko and Sen. Toomey While I am a lifelong Democrat, I consider myself fortunate to know two Republican members of Congress. I was a high school classmate of Senator Pat Toomey and shared a secretary with Congressman John Katko when we were young lawyers … Continue reading
FROM CODE 45 Jewish facilities in eight states, the District of Columbia and Toronto were the target of threats today, including bomb threats to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington. Even prior to these incidents, the ADL had tracked 122 bomb threats so far this year. This sparked every … Continue reading
From Code45 There are several things that are extremely troubling about Attorney General Jeff Sessions getting ensnared in Russiagate. He is the Attorney General and lying under oath as part of his confirmation is a serious matter (a point he emphasized during the Clinton impeachment proceedings). Prior to the Trump campaign, Sessions was a hawk … Continue reading
From Code45 Citing the “alarming increase in bias-motivated violence” since the election of President Trump that has left “[m]any members of racial, ethnic and religious minority communities, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, live in very real fear for their safety,” Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) … Continue reading
Coretta Scott King, Jeff Sessions and the GOP Originally Published on Code45.us. This evening the United States Senate found Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren out of order for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee with regard to Jeff Session’s 1986 nomination to serve as a federal judge in Alabama. … Continue reading
