There’s a lot of discussion here about transit policy. Let’s cut to the chase. The price of a monthly commuter rail pass from Lowell to North Station is $350.00. THREE-hundred and fifty dollars. This is an absurdly regressive policy … [Read more...]

A remarkable ruling just released in a civil suit against Trump finally removes the focus from Rudy Giuliani and others, and places the potential blame squarely where it belongs - on Trump himself. To quote today’s Washington Post … [Read more...]

Okay. I’m rarely useful here with posts based on my job as a defense attorney. Let me be useful for a moment so those who have muted me will actually miss something: The only evidence that will be dispositive (crucial) in the matter of … [Read more...]

The angst over prosecuting Trump for the January 6, 2021 insurrection is well-founded. This Washington Post piece is the best analysis of the difficulty of prosecuting Trump for the insurrection that I have yet seen. But no one, no … [Read more...]

There is no point in beating up on Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia. Not only is it pointless, it is worse. Tomorrow he could decide to be a Republican. And you know what happens then? Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader the … [Read more...]

‪Rebalance the Supreme Court. Call it the Mitch McConnell Supreme Court Justice Act.‬ Large numbers of justices to moderate it. Fixed terms. … [Read more...]

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says in two adjacent sentences that: 1. Defunding of police has destroyed American cities; 2. That the first time he heard the idea and term of “defunding the police” was last year in … [Read more...]

Trump cultists talk about normal Americans who don’t hang on every word from the madman being “sheep”. The news today confirms what I and so many were screaming from the mountaintops all last year: it was absurd to only recommend … [Read more...]

The courts have gotten too much slack and too much credit for ‘holding the line’ against Trump’s criminal activity over the past five years. I am nowhere near as optimistic about the courts as savior as many other Trump opponents. The … [Read more...]