Looking backward and forward to two major events of recent days—First, the anticipated findings of the House Committee on the January 6 Insurrection (including legislative recommendations and criminal referrals), coupled with the latest, high-profile sentencing of a Capitol Building rioter, a Congressional move under the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent former President Trump from holding federal […]

Beginning with both the warning and the hope of journalist Brian Williams about the future of the United States, an in-depth presentation on and analysis of the two, landmark oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court this week—the first on whether the discredited but still dangerous “independent state legislature theory” should be adopted and […]

Consistent with the adopted mission of the program to offer analysis and discussion of the major stories in law, government, and the aspiration for justice in America, we begin this week with an extended review of the content—and the equally-important language—of the landmark ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, […]

In ways obvious and discrete, explicit and implicit, the federal and state courts of America this week rejected two of the principal doctrines that have animated the litigation actions of Donald Trump—namely, that he is entitled to special treatment as a former President, including serial delays in the otherwise routine delivery of justice: From the […]

On a day when America recalls the stirring words of Abraham Lincoln in dedication of the National Cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield 159 years ago, describing and discussing the contemporary applications of his Rule of Law-inspiring message: First, witnessed in two major appointments of this past week—namely, the selection of former federal trial Judge Barbara […]