The Hall of Fire

Oh my god, he actually cited Jordan's wrestling past as a plus?

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that protesters rammed their car into his today in Iowa, but the local police say it was just a routine traffic accident.

I know former presidents are often called "President ___" as a courtesy, but is it really appropriate for him to call himself "President" in legal filings?

Trump did successfully get one case dismissed. But it was the lawsuit that he himself filed against Michael Cohen. Wow. I was writing but abandoned a post in the other thread in which I was arguing that guilty people have a moral duty to plead guilty. And then Trump goes and does the right thing he...

"Your presence requested this evening; it's formal: a top hat, a white tie, and tails" (Anna Bower, Lawfare).

The "podium-gate" scandal involving Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is apparently a January 6th story at its base.

Vladimir Putin said today that if western nations stop providing support to Ukraine (which some Congressional Republican want), Ukraine will have only "a week left to live" before Russia conquers.

The New York Times now has its own reporting that matches ABC's on Trump sharing sub secrets.

Vanity Fair has a profile of 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a "humorless bully living in a paranoid fantasy in which reporters ... are cast as corrupt dupes whose only redemption is to follow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into this miasma of overheated conspiracies."

Bloomberg reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is suing to compel Elon Musk to testify about stock purchases he made in advance of his purchase of Twitter. - - - - - - - - - - - - - E! Online reported a couple days ago that Musk's ex-girlfriend, the alternative pop singer Grimes, is ...

Mitch McConnell is not the legal expert that I would turn to here. The truth is, the motion really does raise some thorny issues (though I think the worst argument they make is that his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial should render him immune). I agree with Litman and others that he will ...

Of course, the reason some senators, including top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, gave in Feb. 2021 for not convicting Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial was that his insurrectionist actions on and leading up to January 6th should instead be handled in the legal system because, as McCo...

Here's a new ProPublica analysis of how even if Clarence Thomas's and Samuel Alito's already shaky argument that flights on billionaires' private jets and stays at billionaires' private homes don't require disclosure because they are "personal hospitality" is correct, Thomas still broke th...

A missile strike (apparently Russian) in Hroza, a village about 50 miles southeast of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, killed at least 50 civilians today.

1. Earlier this week , George Santos's lawyers and the Dept. of Justice asked the judge in Santos's case "to postpone a status conference to continue discussions on 'possible paths forward' in his fraud case." In other words, he's thinking about pleading. 2. CBS today: "Newly obtaine...

Some interesting new material in there. I only looked at the inserted letters and didn't try to compare to previously published letters to see which ones had been expanded. Very grateful that they've gone with a supplemental alphabetical system in order to retain the original letter numbers.

Sen. Menendez is up for reelection next year. A new poll of New Jersey Democrats finds he'd place third in a primary against two likely opponents.

He'd get just 5% of the vote against them.

His net favorability rating is more than 100 points worse than his opponents'!

Sorry, yes, I should have been more clear: I meant there was no media coverage at the time about Sen. Menendez's fiancé having stuck and killed a man named Richard Koop. The Times article to which I linked is titled "Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash" w...

The latest utterly bizarre change to Twitter that Musk has caused is to remove all previews on news stories so that if someone posts a link to a story you can't actually tell that it is a link to a story. Utterly bizarre and ridiculous. Here's an example: [...] Here's a funnier example: https://twi...

Here's the tl;dr version: It's clear that Menendez is corrupt, but not necessarily as clear how he is corrupt. Yesterday it emerged that one of the gifts that Nadine Arslanian (then Sen. Menendez's fiancee) received in 2018 was a $60,000 Mercedes... ...to replace the car that Arslanian had been dri...