Fogbow

One of the wrinkles in Manafort's thinking (and the thinking of some other TrumpChumps) is that the President dare not give him a pardon, at least not until his last month in office. For Trump to hand out a pardon to even one of his henchmen would surely be seen as an impeachable offense. Not just m...

LaRouche was the purveyor of crazy conspiracy theories, mingled with assertions about history and foreign affairs (some of which might have been true, but there was no telling which). He was very keen on imagining illuminati-type conspiracies, which often included satanism, pedophilia or homosexuali...

The 25th Amendment, section 2, requires that the new President's nomination of his new VP be confirmed by both Houses. Congress would never confirm a Pence nomination of Trump to be VP, especially if the impeachment of Trump included a penalty of not holding any future federal office. I think that r...

It would appear, if the Marshals are responsible for bringing Williams to the court, that Williams is not free on bond but is being kept in jail while the case is pending. After all, he is already under a prison sentence from Florida. It would appear that, as Williams's delusion of being a hotshot l...

Someone on Fox said her claiming (years ago) to be a Native American is disqualifying dishonesty for her candidacy.

Well, it's not as if she lied about how bigly her crowds were, or that she had the best words, or that she knew better than all the generals.

Looking at Warren's application for membership in the Texas bar, I wonder why her birthdate is concealed. It's no secret. It may have been her expression of annoyance at the Texas bar asking, needlessly, about the race of its applicants. Texas had the misfortune to be on the losing end of a major ci...

Has Northam done anything 'racist' since 1984?? I'm serious. Can a man be branded - or, worse, deprived of his employment - for something foolist or thoughtless he did as a student, 35 years earlier. Doesn't a working life of proper conduct count for something? Since Northam did this, Ted Danson sho...

I don't think there was ever any affirmative action for First Americans .... if there was, Warren certainly didn't need it. I think she was being proud of her family's folkloric heritage (or she might have been conscientious about the sort of strict 'one drop' racial classifications that were in pla...

Von NotHaus always advertised (e.g., in issues of Media Bypass, which was tied to his coinage until it started refusing to accept Liberty Dollars as payment for subscriptions) that his silver stampings were "inflation proof". If so, it was because the inflation was built-in; his stampings were alway...

It's tough for an outsider to get a grasp on the denoument of the NORFED/Liberty Dollar/von NotHaus case because there are/were numerous separate motions and actions, each pending at its own pace, simultaneously, so that a mere chronological ordering of court decisions in von NotHaus's name is very ...

Traffic court and its cases are not criminal in nature because the penalties are administrative in nature, being points against the license. Moreover, the various FIfth and Sixth Amendment guarantees for criminal defendants do not kick in for Traffic Court respondents -- no free lawyer, no jury tria...

I think that cryptocurrencies are not so much intended or motivated as investments as they are as schemes to conceal money from the tax authorities and various creditors. They serve the purpose that used to require trips to Zurich or obscure Caribbean islands. The viggorish charged for converting th...

A very similar occurrence - before bitcoin and before the internet - with the National Commodity & Barter Assn (NCBA), which created its own warehouse bank to enable members to conceal their money from the IRS, ex-wives, and other creditors. As I wrote in my compilation: National Commodity & Barter ...

Northam's photo dates back to when he was in school, 35 years ago. We have no provenance whatever for the photograph; presumably it was some frat costume party but we don't know even know which of the two boys in the photo is Northam nor whether he got to pick the costume himself, etc. And it was 35...

Northam graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984. That means this photo is at least 35 years old and probably a bit older. That's close to half of the average lifespan. I agree that it's entirely possible that Northam's attitudes regarding race and other topics have matured in all that...

A conservative police-oriented website, Law Enforcement Today, carries an opinion piece to the effect that Nancy Pelosi, by resisting the strict ICE regime, has committed treason, and that a hundred thousand signatures are required on petitions to have her impeached. https://archive.fo/Comrm#selecti...

The Venn diagram (about 10 messages up) is completely bogus. No law requires that a candidate for President have both parents, or even either of them, with US citizenship. Chester A. Arthur's father was not a US citizen. Neither was Obama's father. The requirement is only that the candidate him/hers...

The position of Speaker of the House originated in the British Parliament to set up one person willing and capable to contradict the monarch.
And here it worked; Speaker Pelosi managed to tame King Donald.

I am disappointed that the "resolution" actually gives the government only three weeks to patch up the damage done by a five-week shutdown ... before another shutdown becomes possible. I know that civil servants will get backpay for the days missed (not exactly a windfall - they'll be hit with accum...

That line about being eligible for the Presidency was too good to ignore. But some of the other cases, such as Lynch, dealt with non-citizen parents who were always non-citizens.

WHO is it that Hll is fixated about when she rumbles about birthright citizens?

People who fondly remember Al Franken will be disinclined to vote for Gillibrand in the primaries - and (if it comes to that) maybe on Election Day.

The US Attorney-General, who possibly knew more than KrisAnne Hall Juris Doctor, had a very different attitude, explicitly holding that a child of non-citizens born here was, altho raised abroad, a natural born citizen sufficient to be eligible to be President: Steinkauler's Case , 15 Op. of US Atty...

I wonder if Giuliani has any credibility left to squander. What's worse is that Giuliani's antics are making his client, Trump, look worse and worse. Giuliani had announced - unnecessarily - that Trump can (and presumably does) lie outright when not speaking under oath, that Trump will not testify b...

The old Black's Law Dictionary definition for 'driver' - which uses the words 'employed' and 'cattle', goes back to Bouvier's LD circa 1 8 58, and, moreover, does not seem to have ever been quoted in an American court decision - has not appeared in an edition of Black's for the last 40 years. Ballen...

The US Supreme Court:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case ... _sdt=10006

and

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case ... _sdt=10006