“The Hunter Biden scandal is really about Joe Biden”
My appearance on Fox News Live with Griff Jenkins: "I'm not sure there's any [plea] deal at this point that can satisfy or give the public confidence that this is being treated fairly."...
William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School.
He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. At Harvard he was Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.
Prior to joining the Cornell law faculty in 2007, Professor Jacobson had a highly successful civil litigation and arbitration practice in Providence, Rhode Island, concentrating in investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry, including many high profile cases reported in leading newspapers and magazines.
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My appearance on Fox News Live with Griff Jenkins: "I'm not sure there's any [plea] deal at this point that can satisfy or give the public confidence that this is being treated fairly."...
My appearance with Stacy Washington on the Stacy on the Right show: "So these are the Democrat prosecutors manipulating the Republican primaries in order to both help Trump be the nominee, but hurt him when he is the nominee and he's in a general election....
We are approaching our 15th Anniversary in October. Shocking, actually....
Dissent lambasts his colleagues inconsistency: "The Biden administration’s 'Pathways Rule' before us in this appeal is not meaningfully different from the prior administration’s rules that were backhanded by my two colleagues...
My interview about the Trump DC Indictment: "let's go on the assumption they think they can prove these things, that the allegations were made in good faith. The question is, is there a crime here? That's what I think a lot of people are questioning."...
Joe Biden is on a media tour talking about Hunter's daughter Navy, coincidentally in the days leading up to and during Devon Archer's testimony about Joe's involvement in Hunter''s influence pedding, creating a contrived distraction....
If Trump is indicted in Georgia, particularly if based on a RICO theory, it would be another electoral gift, solidifying the 'rally-around' effect we've seen since the March 2023 Manhattan indictment. What the impact is in six months when voting starts in Iowa remains to...
I first wrote about Prepping for the Worst two years ago. I'm not alone. An estimated 74 million Americans are preparing for some level of disaster. As before, I still no longer view “preppers” as crazy. Maybe they were right, just early. Better early than...
Florida can continue to seek a declaration that the restrictive covenants put in place by then Disney-controlled Board of the Reedy Creek Improvement District allowing Disney control in perpetuity were void ab initio, potentially mooting much or all of Disney's federal lawsuit....
The internal polling and focus groups must have been brutal. So "Grandpa" Joe tossed Hunter's daughter Navy a verbal bone during an interview with People magazine. Just a bone, mentioning her name, nothing more....
Webinar on the pressures to use technology to achieve "equitable" group results. Supposed "bias free" algorithms and AI will, in fact, be stealth quotas hidden out of sight: "the showdown between equity and equality through algorithms, machine learning, and artificial iintelligence will not be televised."...
Additional count of willful retention of National Defense Information and two new obstruction counts including trying to delete security camera footage...
My appearance on the Tony Katz show on July 21, 2023, calling for formation of an impeachment committee in the House: "this is potentially the biggest scandal, dwarfing Watergate by far. Certainly dwarfing the inaccurate Russia collusion allegations, which were never proven. So this is...
If you check "White" or "Asian/Pacific Islander" you need to show you were "economically disadvantaged," but if you are "Black/African-American" or "American Indian/Alaska Native" or "Hispanic/Latino" you are presumed eligible. The Jacobs School of Medicine and the rest of the SUNY system need to stop...
Legislators created a map with one bare (51%) black majority, and another with a 40% black vote, seemingly complying with the District Court order affirmed by SCOTUS. This could result in Democrats losing their one Alabama seat....
Court declines at this time to rule on Trump's claim that he can't get a fair trial prior to the 2024 election....
MN Supreme Court denies Petition for Review. Derek Chauvin did not get a fair trial. But it doesn't matter to the public or the Minnesota courts. Chauvin reportedly will seek U.S. Supreme Court review, but I doubt SCOTUS will take the case....
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