The Jan. 6 Select Committee is gearing up for public hearings next month which, according to Representative Jamie Raskin, will “blow the roof off the House.” On May 12, 2022, the Committee served five House members with subpoenas, but only after extending written invitations to cooperate and appear voluntarily. The…

Both the words and idea of a moral red line appear never to have imprinted in the mind of Mitch McConnell. Last month Axios’s Jonathan Swan, a gifted journalist and questioner, attempted to pin down the Senate Minority Leader on whether he has a moral red line and, if so…

“I would take 50 Mitt Romneys in the Republican caucus offering up infuriatingly out-of-touch takes on things like student debt forgiveness over the crop of people we currently have.” Chris Hayes, April 28, 2022. While I disagree with many of his policy positions, one of Utah’s United States senators appears…

Imagine how intoxicating the power must be. Imagine the sense of self-importance. Imagine the immeasurable hubris. Imagine a willingness to forfeit all principle, all integrity. Imagine working 14-hour days behind a false public persona to override the political will of the majority. Imagine being Mike Lee. While this week’s Marjorie…

The text exchanges between Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows give other events greater meaning and place them in context. Senator Lee should be investigated for conspiracies to defraud the United States and obstruct an official proceeding. (He won’t be.) You may recall that one…

Voter Suppression I live over 2,000 miles from Tallahassee, Florida. Why do I care what happens there? Suppressing the vote in Florida, or anywhere else, violates the rights of U.S. citizens, impairing their opportunity to participate in open self-government. It improperly skews the outcome of elections to the party in power and…

George Will’s April 1 Opinion in the Washington Post, Clarence Thomas and his wife’s texts: A kerfuffle over appearances, must have been an April fool’s joke. There can be no other explanation. Will completely misses the point, except in his description of Ginni Thomas: “…politically, mad as a hatter. The…

There is a lot to unpack from the vitriol served up while senators engaged in “jackassery,” trying to create viral video during the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the United States Supreme Court: a religious test; baby racists; critical race theory: and, of course, sexual…

Nearly a year ago I posted Shame on Lawyers And Attorneys General The Likes of Sean Reyes. The post focused primarily on the professional misconduct of 18 state attorneys general, and that of Utah’s in particular. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, The 18 filed and formally endorsed…