“I hope you’re doing well! I’m writing from magazine,” ran an email I received two weeks ago. “We’re planning on putting together a roundup of contributors after the Trump verdict is announced. We’re not totally sure about the question we’re going to ask contributors to weigh in on just yet, but I think it will be something like: How will this verdict affect 2024? .
.. Let me know if you think you can contribute; if yes, I will be in touch next week!” They were talking about votes.
The mainstream political media knows how to talk about votes. I replied, noting that my comment was for the record and that I hoped they would use it: “I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. The obsession of political media with acting like Jimmy the Greek, in a time when everything is unprecedented, is atrocious for civic health.
” Maybe my interlocutor was too young to know who was. Either way, I never heard back. Consider this, then, my extended response.
allegedly coequal constitutional branches was on trial in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, . And now we have our verdict. HuffPost.
com ran the headline “ .” Click on it, and you get an image of tumbleweeds. Clever, but not funny.
A jury of ordinary citizens ruled against the Republican Party’s leader, so powerful Republicans ruled that the rule of law itself was illegitimate. You have to reach for a German word to describe this. That word is “ .
” What was actually a by-the-book legal proceeding was a “qui.
