“First came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then …
Posted on April 14, 2025 by Dick .
Of course I’m not going to do it,”
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele
Despite judicial orders, President Trump remains defiant when it comes to repatriating a wrongfully arrested and deported legally-protected El Salvadoran immigrant who has lived in the country for a decade, is married to an American citizen with whom …
Posted on April 1, 2023 by Dick .
“There shall be one rule of Justice for the rich and the poor; for the favorite in Court, and the Countryman at the Plough.”
Samuel Adams
Trump avoided criminal liability during his presidency based on a Constitutionally-questionable 1973 DOJ memorandum which concluded “indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly …
Posted on May 29, 2009 by Dick .
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible”
Reinhold Niebuhr (1944)
Sometimes in life there are no good choices. Attorney General Eric Holder decision to to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four associates in connection with the 9/11 attacks is an vivid example of choosing least damaging of a number of no-win options, …