Below is my column in The Hill on the worsening situation at the Southern border and how the Supreme Court laid the seeds for this crisis over a decade ago. The courts have left few options for either the states or Congress in compelling the enforcement of federal law.
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Yesterday, the U.S. Capitol Police announced that there would be no criminal charges after a former aide to Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md) filmed a porn scene in Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building. Aidan Maese-Czeropski filmed his having sex with his partner from the members seats. It turns out that it is not even a misdemeanor to shoot a porn scene in a Senate hearing room and then post it on the Internet. The decision officially confirms for many that Congress can be legally obscene. Continue reading “The U.S. Capitol Police Makes It Official: Congress Can Be Legally Obscene”
Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the rather bizarre filing of Hunter Biden this week in the Delaware gun charge case. Hunter draws comparisons with the children of undocumented migrants, dead Tsars, and Japanese internment camp victims. It then gets really weird…
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It takes a lot to get me to raise fairness concerns over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. I was highly critical of Cuomo in his dismissal of the rights of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation fight when Cuomo not only insisted that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford must be believed but demanded that Kavanaugh take a polygraph examination. However, Cuomo has legitimate objections to a new Justice Department finding that he sexually harassed 13 women over an eight-year period. Continue reading “The Biden Administration Declares Cuomo May Be a Brutal, Serial Sexual Harasser … Or Not”
Today, the state of Alabama will try again to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith. In one of the most bizarre capital punishment cases in the country, the state previously botched an execution of Smith. Everything about the case has been legally irregular in the effort to execute this convicted assassin. Continue reading “Supreme Court Approves First Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Bizarre Capital Punishment Case”
For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. All of the evidence pointed toward the family of Markel’s estranged wife Wendi Adelson. Now, her mother, Donna Adelson, 73, has been arrested trying to get on a one-way flight to Vietnam, a country without an extradition treaty with the United States. Continue reading “The Markel Murder: Donna Adelson Arrested at Miami International Airport”
Below is my column in The Hill on Kevin Morris and the expanding number of roles that he now claims to be playing from lawyer to producer to donor to friend. The multiplicity of roles could present serious problems for Morris as the Biden corruption scandal continues.*
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Continue reading “The Many Faces of Kevin Morris: “Who is the Real Me?””
Sahara Dula, 24, is a New England College criminal justice graduate who wants to specialize in “crisis communication.” If so, she has a bit to learn after intentionally hitting a police officer with her Lexus and then declaring “F— these cops, it’s a lesson to him.” Continue reading ““F–k these Cops, it’s a Lesson to Him”: New York Woman Makes Self-Incriminating Statements After Attack Caught on Video”
Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The court has indicated that it may hold hearings on the controversy in early February. That could present a possible delay if the court believes that a change in prosecutors (or even a change in venue) is needed in the interests of justice. In my view, Willis made a strategic mistake in attacking the estranged wife of her alleged lover in a filing this week, alleging that she is both an adulterer and a political conspirator.
Here is the column: Continue reading “Georgia Prosecutors Should Go, But That Won’t Necessarily End the Case Against Trump”
In a surprising filing, Fulton County’s district attorney Fani Willis has accused the estranged wife of her alleged lover of conspiring to undermine the Trump prosecution by seeking her deposition in the messy divorce case of Nathan Wade. Willis, again, does not deny having an affair with Wade, who she appointed lead prosecutor in the case. Instead, she accuses Joycelyn Wade of an affair that broke up the marriage and suggests that she is coordinating with Trump forces to interfere with the prosecution. Continue reading “Fani Willis Accuses Wife of Alleged Lover of Being an Adulterer and Political Conspirator”
Below is my column in the New York Post on discovery of cocaine on the pouch holding Hunter Biden’s gun. Biden’s team is likely to move to keep the tests out of the trial due to the breaks in custody (it was first thrown into a dumpster and then discovered by a man rummaging through the trash). However, the discovery is the latest setback for the defense team struggling to find a defense to the charges.
Here is the column: Continue reading “Legal Blow: Hunter’s Defense Hammered by Discovery of Cocaine on Gun Pouch”
Below is my column in The Hill on Hunter Biden’s sudden offer to appear for testimony in Congress. Biden’s demand for a second “valid subpoena” presents institutional considerations that weigh against yielding to the condition for testimony. This was a valid subpoena issued by multiple committees with independent subpoena authority. Few members relish Hunter and his team turning them into dancing bears for their public amusement. The contempt of Congress is already a completed act for Hunter. Even if he were to testify, he knowingly and publicly committed this violation. I imagine that his team has already seriously laid out an option for Hunter to agree to appear and take the Fifth. If he choses to testify at a deposition, he is looking at one of the most perilous stages of this scandal. Otherwise, he may hope that his last minute change will give the Justice Department, yet again, cover for declining to act. [Update: there are reports that the House will not call Hunter’s bluff and may issue a new subpoena as demanded.]
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Continue reading “‘Say it Nicer’: Hunter Makes a Familiar Last-Minute Offer to Congress”
Below is my column in The Messenger on the vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt and the need for Democrats to seriously reconsider the costs of voting against the resolution. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Hunter in contempt with every Democrat opposing the motion. Once again, the party is short selling an institutional asset that they are likely to need in the near future if they retake the House.
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There is an interesting ruling in the ongoing litigation of the case of Mark McCloskey. We previously discussed the case, which became a cause célèbre for many on the left and the right after Mark and Patricia McCloskey of St. Louis appeared outside of their home in an armed standoff with protesters in St.Louis. I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. Mark McCloskey later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors to end the case, but was then granted a pardon. He then sough the return of two firearms. The Missouri Court of Appeals has now prevented that return of the weapons by denying a motion for replevin. The basis for the decision is very interesting: McCloskey is pardoned but still considered guilty. Continue reading “Missouri Court: Mark McCloskey Pardoned But Still Guilty”
Below is my column in the Hill on the new emerging narrative or defense from the Bidens. It has become increasingly obvious that the Bidens were influence peddling, as now acknowledged by many Democrats and media pundits. The new defense is that Hunter Biden and his uncles may have been selling influence, but that it was “illusory” and not actual. In other words, it was a grift. There is an obvious problem with this effort to portray Hunter as a type of Harald Hill, Music Man, selling marching bands. It is still corruption and the President may have not only known about it but fostered it. If that is the case and we just dismissed it as the natural order of things, as Professor Henry Hill warned, we truly do “have trouble right here in River city.”
Here is the column: Continue reading “The Grifter Defense: The Bidens Move to Embrace Influence Peddling with a Twist”