Category Archives: DOJ

Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading

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Who does MAGA think it’s fooling? This guy

In yesterday’s Voice of the People (letters to the editor) in the Daily News, Ralph A. Manente from Yonkers entered a passionate expression of support for Trump’s retribution against his “enemies.” (This guy knows nothing about courts, juries, trials, judges … Continue reading

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Fearful historians. Combative lawyers. Everybody yelling at Democrats

Yesterday, I watched and listened to Paul Krugman having a penetrating conversation with a military historian, Phillips O’Brien, who teaches at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). They were discussing us, i.e., America in the throes of today. It was … Continue reading

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