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State by State Wrinkles I just read this regarding Oregon election law. "According to [Attorney] Meek, there is a stronger legal case to remove Trump from Oregon’s general election ballot than the primary ballot. That’s because Oregon law requires candidates to swear that they are qualified to...

I stand on the beach and say the word "Orange." If that does not mean tomorrow is Thursday, I don't know what does.

It's Not About "Naked Partisanship." The California Secretary of State, a Democrat, declined to remove Trump from the California ballot. The Oregon Secretary of State, a Democrat, declined to remove Trump from the ballot. The same happened in Minnesota and Michigan. In those states, the...

Read the trial transcripts and rulings to learn what really happened.

That is of ZERO consequence. That omission has not been raised in court by any Trump attorney that I now of. It if the point you are raising mattered, they certainly would have. Saying the committee left something out of the tapes they played at their hearings is like saying a toy a child in...

I could have been more clear and said the court is said by many to be pro-Trump. That is not an unreasonable claim to make since the majority of justices are Republican appointees and three of them are Trump appointees. Beneath my "pro-Trump" characterization is a touch of cynicism. In fact...

You are raising the same double jeopardy question Trump's attorney's raised in court. They lost. The point has no legal merit.

Good point.

The three voters are Kimberly Rosen, Thomas Saviello, and Ethan Strimling. Rosen is a former Republican state senator. Saviello is an independent. Strimling is a Democrat. The "disenfranchise" argument is widely made, and as I consider it from the view of an ordinary Republican voter who wants...

Of course they will. My point is that the longer they wait, the more likely it will seem that they are not eager to take up this case. They can take this up very quickly if they choose to. But the longer they wait, the more people will wonder if the delay portends bad news for Trump. The...

In the sense that Trump has not been charged with insurrection and found guilty of it in a court of law, you are correct. In the criminal sense, at the standard prescribed by criminal law, it has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that Trump committed insurrection. And...

I'm not sure I know what you are referring to here as I have not been closely following this idea or criticism. Does it have something to do with what the US House Jan 6 committee did or did not do? What are you talking about? Who omitted what, and when? Bard does not get it right all the time...

In case after case, Trump presses his immunity claim. And in case after case, he loses.

US Supreme Court Watch The Colorado Republican Party has has appealed to the US Supreme Court the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump is disqualified from serving as president of the US. Trump says he will also appeal but he has not yet done so. Regardless of when Trump acts, the SCOTUS...

If so, two courts of law and one Secretary of State to date are similarly deluded. The differences is, their beliefs matter because they have the power to disqualify Trump from the ballot in their states. You can continue to post "peacefully and patriotically" all you want. You do seem to...

Trump incited and engaged in insurrection. No amount of false claims or twisted reasoning is going to change that.

Context matters. On Jan 6. Trump was using his words to incite insurrection.

And he used the word "fight" 20 times in the speech, an unknown number of times through the rest of the day, and he intentionally incited this insurrection, two courts found. Your nitpicking about word count is meaningless. Or if it means something, the word count means Trump used his fighting...

Maybe a greater reliance on the truth will help. In that spirit, I went to a transcript of the speech itself. If you care to do the work, you will see Trump used the words/phrase "peacefully and patriotically" just one time. He used the word "fight," "fights," or "fighting" 20 times.

I'm not sure about condemning greed. I'm greedy. No matter how much money I have, I always want more. Almost everyone I know, from all economic classes, will say the same thing. Trump, who loves being rich, wants more money for himself, his campaign and his legal expenses. Catholic monks who...