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Biden Admin Issues Rule To Thwart Trump Ability To Fire Biden Executive Branch Holdovers If He Wins

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 05, 2024 123 Comments

We have a sitting president attempting to hamstring a potential future president over his own branch of government by ensuring that his (Obama-Biden's) political allies remain in unchecked power.

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Supreme Court Denies Trump Application To Vacate 11th Circuit Order On Documents Marked Classified

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2022 36 Comments

Not unexpected, but of course being celebrated as a smack down of Trump. Does this mean SCOTUS is legitimate again?

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Mar-a-Lago Raid: Judge Rejects DOJ Request For Partial Stay, Appoints Special Master

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2022 67 Comments

As to DOJ claims that documents are classified and not subject to executive privilege: "The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion...."

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Apparently Staged Mar-a-Lago Photo Doesn’t Help FBI/DOJ Credibility And Doesn’t Reveal Anything We Didn’t Already Know

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2022 86 Comments

If this is a staged photo it may have given the feds a minor news cycle win, but it didn't help FBI/DOJ credibility. It makes them seem like they are playing to the media, but in fact they played into Trump's argument that the FBI/DOJ can't be trusted."

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Mar-a-Lago: Court “hereby provides notice of its preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2022 48 Comments

Feds must respond by August 30, including under seal "[a] particularized notice indicating the status of Defendant’s review of the seized property, including any filter review conducted by the privilege review team and any dissemination of materials beyond the privilege review team."

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“FBI Had No Legally Valid Cause” For Mar-a-Lago Raid and Warrant “Had No Legal Basis,” Argue Top Lawyers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2022 65 Comments

David Rivkin and Lee Casey in WSJ: "if the Justice Department’s sole complaint is that Mr. Trump had in his possession presidential records he took with him from the White House, he should be in the clear, even if some of those records are classified."

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Awakening To The Loss of Institutions: Critical Race Theory Fight Is About Preventing Society From Turning Against Itself

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 10, 2021 107 Comments

A Twitter thread read on air by Tucker Carlson ostensibly was about 2020 election media manipulation, but it reflects a broader awakening to institutional rot that is playing out state by state, school district by school district, and school by school. CRT is the cultural battle of our time.

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Sidney Powell May Get To Try To Prove Her ‘Kraken’ Case – As a Defendant in Civil Lawsuits by Smartmatic and Dominion

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2020 96 Comments

Smartmatic and Dominion have demanded retractions and threatened suit, but Powell isn't backing down, and her attorney Lin Wood dares them: "File your lawsuit."

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Legal Insurrection is 12 years old, and running through the finish line

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2020 24 Comments

This has, in many ways, been Legal Insurrection's greatest year ever. I probably should have spent more of this post cataloging our successes, but I'm completely focused on three weeks from now.

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Failure of the Media Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 05, 2020 6 Comments

All the news you may have missed.

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Justice Sotomayor accuses SCOTUS conservative majority of pro-Trump bias

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 22, 2020 110 Comments

After conservative majority stays lower court injunction against the "public charge" immigration rule, Sotomayor lashes out: "the Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others"

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Lev Parnas is Julie Swetnick, and Dems are trying to ‘Kavanaugh’ the impeachment trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2020 28 Comments

Let Adam Schiff put on his pathetic case based on the record in the House, then dismiss the charges as legally and constitutionally insufficient, or move to a quick vote. To allow Democrats to 'Kavanaugh' an impeachment trial would be unforgivable.

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Pete Buttigieg suggests Trump to blame for Iranians shooting down Ukrainian airliner

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2020 37 Comments

"Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat" -- no, the plane was shot down by the Iranians at Tehran airport on the night the Iranians were firing ballistic missiles at U.S. troops, we were not firing at them.

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Trump as Human Shield

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2019 67 Comments

Trump may not be the only thing standing between “us” and the deranged Resistance mob, but he’s one of the things.

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Trump Impeachment is the Scott Walker Recall All Over Again

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 30, 2019 18 Comments

“In both cases, they thought just as they were upset about something, everyone was”

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Elise Stefanik’s Stardom is Born

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2019 26 Comments

"President Obama's own State Department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden's role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping this wonderful Ambassador nominee before her confirmation. And yet our Democratic colleagues and the Chairman of this Committee cry foul when we dare ask that same question that the Obama State Department was so concerned about."

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Something Very Big Just Happened Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2019 3 Comments

All the news you may have missed.

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