See Dana Milbank, “Mitt Romney’s act of bravery changed nothing and changed everything,” Washington Post, February 5, 2020 (4:53 p.m.). Amber Phillips, “‘The president is…
Vladimir Putin is proposing constitutional reforms which would enshrine rejection of international law in the Russian constitution. By adopting these reforms, Russia could reject judgments…
Reprinted, with permission, from Lawyers for Humanity, December 14, 2019. With the adoption by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee of two narrowly-focused articles of impeachment,…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on September 24, 2019 that the House would proceed with an impeachment investigation, using the six committees currently investigating Donald…
Jennifer Rubin, for whom I hold the utmost admiration and respect, states (“We’re passing the tipping point on impeachment, ” September 22): “It is politically…
According to the Washington Post and other news outlets, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has concluded, on the basis of all the evidence available to…
OUR VALUES: Truth Integrity Decency Character Facts Science Law Freedom Developing Sometimes it feels like all the stars have gone out of the sky. Our…
Trump’s critics do not understand how propaganda works, and how they must counter it. Following the unfolding drama of revelations about Trump’s crimes and those…
DRAFT -DEVELOPING 18 USC Ch. 73: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDUREPART I—CRIMES §1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees…
Developing Americans are used to thinking that “the struggle for the rule of law” refers to the struggles of other peoples in foreign lands…
For a critique of the violation of due process norms and the rule of law in the current hysteria over alleged sexual harassment of women…
The Republican Party and Lincoln at Gettysburg: “That government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this earth”…
UPDATE October 25, 2017 The Trenchant Observer has a serious problem, and it is not clear how it might be solved. The problem is that…
With the day-to-day revelations about President Donald Trump and his and his associates’ contacts with Russians and their potential conspiracy to intervene in the 2016 U.S. elections, it is easy to lose sight of how pro-Russian U.S. foreign policy under Trump has become, and the ways in which Trump is implementing policies which further Vladimir Putin’s and Russia’s goals.
Mary Ilyushina and Hilary Clarke, “Russia warns US over seized diplomatic compounds,” CNN Politics, Tue July 18, 2017Updated 1:54 AM ET,
See Krishnadev Calamur, “Russia Threatens to Expel 30 U.S. Diplomats; Moscow is angry about the Trump administration’s refusal to return two diplomatic compounds seized last…
Developing Former Solidarity leader and former Polish President Lech Walensa, commenting on Putin, has said: “He broke agreements, contracts, guarantees. The world cannot just leave…
Developing The United States is currently in one of the most dramatic situations imaginable: Russia intervened in the November 8, 2016 elections to favor Donald…
Developing President Donald J. Trump gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, February 28, 2017. He has also presented his…
