Way back when I was a boy, the U.S. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members. We kids could never have imagined that there’d come a day when the highest bench in the land would...
By Chris Satullo Jonathan Haidt saw all this coming from miles away. By this, I mean all the roiling campus protests over Gaza – featuring protesters whose fierce, righteous passion for justice is matched by their naivete, their incoherence, their ideological...
Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off. At first I wasn’t sure I’d heard him correctly, so I checked the trial transcript and...
You can never predict what a jury will do – in Trump’s first criminal trial, a single MAGAt can ensure that he skates – so we might as well revel in the here and now. It is exhilarating to see this weak aging lummox stuck in court, starring in a...
By Chris Satullo Four comments on the week’s events – a few pleasant surprises and a pair of persistent puzzlements. First, the good: 1) In no way did I expect Justice Juan Merchan to seat a full sworn-in jury of 12 by the end of this week in Donald...
