(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 29, 2024
Trump Immunity: The DOJ Should Waive 2 Weeks' Response Time Jack Smith should promptly move for an earlier Supreme Court hearing, by waiving most of the time allocated for his Reply and any supporting briefs.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Government said to print partisan poster for William Barr The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has allegedly printed a poster for partisan purposes, featuring attorney general William Barr. (Satire.)

SHARE        Friday, September 25, 2020
Was Trump Michigan's "Man of the Year"? Was Trump ever Michigan's Man of the Year, as he has often claimed? I ran an alternative fact check.

SHARE        Saturday, September 5, 2020
These colors never run!! Why the United States Commander in Chief, alone among allied leaders, canceled his visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Putin's perfidious prowess Doubt of the Day: Is Trump trying to withhold, from Congress and from the nation, intelligence reports that strongly show Russia is inciting street violence in the US?

SHARE        Sunday, July 15, 2018
The Updated Apotheosis of George Washington Donald Trump is artistically placed in the American pantheon.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Multiple Informants Disclose Japan-Russia "Mole" In White House According to highly placed sources in the FBI, CIA, and NSA, Russia and Japan are now controlling the White House through Trump's ostensible senior advisor, Stephen Miller. [Satire.]

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Washington v. Trump: The Ninth Circuit Should Admonish Trump As To Minimal Standards Of Care The Ninth Circuit should put Trump on notice that, unlike his notoriously inaccurate and confrontational tweets, his executive orders, and his legal filings in defense of them, must meet minimal professional standards, especially where harsh and global consequences promptly accrue.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 28, 2016
California's Death Penalty: Mike Ramos v. Kevin Cooper and Proposition 62 In obtaining Kevin Cooper's controversial capital conviction, San Bernardino D.A. Mike Ramos raised unresolved but resolvable doubts as to the integrity of his office. Already campaigning to become the state A.G. in 2018, Ramos raises further doubts by categorically misrepresenting that Proposition 66, to accelerate the death penalty, redirects first appeals from the state supreme court to regular courts of appeal.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 14, 2016
California's Death Penalty: The California Supreme Court's Carefulness Con In California, competing death penalty ballot initiatives both stress that since 1977 only 13 of 951 death sentences have been carried out. But neither side recognizes that the exoneration rate is also scandalously low--at 3 in 951, it is one seventh the rate in other states. In conjunction with in-depth analysis, this statistic squelches the California Supreme Court's "careful examination" excuse for extreme delays.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 18, 2016
California's Death Penalty: Dysfunctional Review Dysfunctionally Reviewed In Jones v. Davis, a lack of articulated "sua sponte" standards caused the off-point reinstatement of California's death penalty. An en banc Ninth Circuit panel should restore Judge Carney's Order Declaring California's Death Penalty System Unconstitutional. The case is a poster-child for Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of the death penalty.
Series: Death Penalty doctrine (3 Articles, 5460 views)

SHARE        Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Overdue Process And The Death Penalty In light of systemically dysfunctional appellate processes increasingly at issue in death penalty cases such as Jones v. Davis, it is necessary that the federal courts promptly retire McKane v. Durston, by declaring that today's Fourteenth Amendment due process guarantee incorporates an adequate criminal right to appeal.
Series: Death Penalty doctrine (3 Articles, 5460 views)

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 16, 2015
Glossip v. The Death Penalty: Does Oklahoma's Negligent Mock Execution Actionably Enhance Glossip's Lackey Claim? Is the Eighth Amendment's "cruel and unusual" clause actionably violated by Oklahoma's incarceration of Glossip on Death Row for 17 years, the last of which entailed five stays of execution, including three last meals and a full-fledged mock execution?
Series: Death Penalty doctrine (3 Articles, 5460 views)

SHARE        Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Monetary Sovereignty? Give Me A Break! (Part II) The US is cognitively incapable of exercising monetary sovereignty even in issuing its very own $1 coin. Restoring full monetary sovereignty re $1 denominations by eliminating the $1 bill would result in prompt multi-billion dollar seigniorage gains--even after fully paying for the change--and would restore monetary sovereignty more broadly, if only by curing Fed-fed ignorance.
Series: Monetary Sovereignty (2 Articles, 4573 views)

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Monetary Sovereignty? Give Me A Break! (Part I) The TPP's failure to set a standard for deciding in which currency to award lost profit damages against governments is a grave threat to the public fisc, but not to monetary sovereignty. Joe Firestone et alia do disservice by affirming that the United States now exercises full monetary sovereignty by issuing its own currency.
Series: Monetary Sovereignty (2 Articles, 4573 views)

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Ninth Circuit Leaves Door Open To Suit Against GAO Re Coins Act In affirming dismissal of a suit alleging Treasury misrepresentation impairing the right to petition for new issues of United States currency versus Federal Reserve currency, the Ninth Circuit left open the door to a suit against the GAO re its Coins Act benefit estimates. The Coins Act proposes to replace all $1 Federal Reserve notes with $1 United States coins.

SHARE        Thursday, September 12, 2013
B*gg*r Bubbles A dialog re usury and fraud, drafted in 2009, and drawing on particular mortgage frauds, two of which are described in notes.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 29, 2013
S. 1105: Dollar Coins or Paper Dollars? Reflections on Senate bill S. 1105, introduced June 6, 2013, assigned a 0% chance of passage. It proposes to replace all $1 FEDERAL RESERVE notes with $1 UNITED STATES coins.

(12 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 20, 2013
Lincoln's buried bank note veto applies today Lincoln's most important veto is buried and forgotten. Yet, it saved the union, and it still applies today.

(18 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 15, 2013
How The One-Dollar Coin Can Cure The Economy This article, written for those well-informed re monetary policy, supports a longstanding proposal to replace all Federal Reserve one dollar bills with one dollar United States coins. It quotes at length a related lawsuit against the Treasury now before the Ninth Circuit court of appeal. The complaint and briefs on appeal are available under the Treasury menu at commondada.com.