With the Legal Subcommittee meeting of COPUOUS in Vienna a little over a week away (I’ll be attending this year), Laura Montgomery has a new paper out, and Christopher Johnson has some thoughts, too.
Category Archives: Law
The New Special Counsel
Why Sessions didn’t appoint one.
It makes sense to me to put a seasoned prosecutor on the case within the department. With the I.G. report, they probably already have plenty of evidence to pursue. And McCabe is clearly worried. Good.
And yes, the FBI needs a thorough overhaul.
[Late-morning update]
McCabe lied four times to investigators.
[Update a couple minutes later]
What did Comey know about the Pulse nightclub terrorist, and when did he know it?
[Update a few minutes later]
Now here’s a former FBI agent worth providing funding for:
“I went through hell for a year and a half,” she said. “Andy made sure I couldn’t get out of the division.”
Gritz said that McCabe additionally made “nasty, false” comments about her in a meeting — “lying,” she said. “which is why he just got fired.”
“Andy” sounds like a real peach.
King Versus Burwell
SCOTUS has essentially repudiated itself. Many of the decisions from the left side of it have been nakedly political.
The New National Space Strategy
Thoughts on it from Laura Montgomery, with its implications for Outer Space Treaty interpretation.
Comey And Mueller
McCabe just made life tougher for them. As though it wasn’t tough enough. And note: Turley is a life-long Democrat.
At this point, I’d be happy to see McCabe, Comey, and many others do time in Club Fed. It’s probably too much to ask, though.
[Monday-afternoon update]
A higher loyalty to their inflated sense of virtue.
I think a lot of leftist heads are going to explode when Horowitz’s report comes out, and they’re not even anticipating it, continuing to focus on the Trump/Russia chimera.
Justice-Department Standards
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that Mueller’s investigation flouts them.
Adulthood
I agree with Glenn, just make it eighteen, period. The health-insurance issue is particularly absurd. Just nutty.
[Evening update]
Sorry, bad link fixed.
Talk About Friday News Dump
McCabe was fired by the FBI, and will lose his pension. It’s pretty clear now that his “retirement” was an attempt to outrun his perfidy.
Fox News had been predicting this. In my opinion, he (and others in this now greatest political scandal in American history, if the Democrat operatives in the media would actually report it properly) should be worried bout a lot more than losing pensions…
[Saturday-morning update]
The reckoning of the FBI has begun.
It’s long overdue. The rot goes back to the first Clinton administration, if not all the way back to Hoover himself.
Planetary Protection
…is not required by Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty. I suspect a lot of people at COPUOS would disagree.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, bad link fixed.
Local Governments
Can they have greater autonomy from the states?
[Tuesday-morning update]
Related: Could #Resistance in California result in federal troops being sent there? It would be pretty amusing if they use this as an excuse to recognize a new legislature in the hinterlands.