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On friday we took the cases from tuesday tuesday. Wednesdays we discussed the monday cases. But the deliberation is orderly at the conference. The justices speak in turn going around the table. And usually the discussion is over after everyone has spoken but sometimes on the more difficult cases there would be back and fort later on. But by the time the conference is over most of the cases have been decided and will not be will come out the way the way theyre designed to conference. But there ar...

I dissented from my two colleagues who thought the recount actually increased the risk anner own youse count of ballots which i thought was quite wrong. That case was reversed by the was on the court of appeals. If the recount had continued to probably wouldnt have altered the election. There have been some studies that indicate thats the case but the thing that may have roduced the result was the ballots they had in Palm Beach County if i remember correctly some of the details that Patrick Buch...

A new defense bill crammed with political pork smashes records, but you likely didn't hear the news, because War is Good again Fifteen years ago, as the Bush years waned and political division began skyrocketing, one thing everyone agreed on was...

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Stern is a retired journalist and was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team which broke the Cunningham story for The San Diego Union-Tribune. He lives in Parkland, Florida. When disgraced former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham left prison in 2013, he wrote to the San Diego judge who presided over his case, asking him to restore his gun rights, which he’d forfeited as a convicted felon. Judge Larry Burns wrote back, explaining he didn’t have that authority. Now, thanks to a partial pardo...

The breadth of his bribe-taking was stunning and his high-life antics were gauche. The former Top Gun fighter ace at times appeared like an aging playboy stuck in the 1970s on his party-pad boat at the Capital Yacht Club, and he had a habit of giving signed photographs of his old self in a Navy flight suit to total strangers. Then-President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour pardon of the former congressman — announced early Wednesday morning along with more than 140 others — won’t change Cunning...

January 20, 2021 10:38 a.m. Disgraced former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s messy “bribe menu” was, apparently, just tacky enough to garner President Trump’s sympathy. In an 11th hour move, Trump used his final moments as President to issue pardons and clemency to 143 people, including his aides and associates as well as friends of his closest allies. The list includes Duke Cunningham and his lava lamp. Trump issued Cunningham a conditional pardon, as Cunningham...

TPM Illustration/Getty Images The Time TPM Went To Toronto In Search Of Rob Ford, And Other Golden Duke Stories In the Trump era, political scandals of yesteryear are routinely written off as quaint — events from a time when the bar for decency was higher and our collective threshold for tolerating scandal hadn’t yet been dismantled by the brazen, unethical behavior that the Trump administration ushered in. That’s not quite the case with Rob Ford. The crack-smoking lat...

A partial and continually updated glossary of Josh Marshallisms (or, more broadly, TPMisms).     appreciate the congrats: What you say when you’ve done something really awesome. An homage to Trump’s memorable response to the Pulse nightclub shooting: “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!” the Aqua-Duke: The boat on which Randy “Duke” Cunningham lived, owned by defense contract...

James Traficant (1) Randy “Duke” Cunningham: The former congressman — and Golden Dukes’ namesake — was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2006 after he was indicted on bribery charges. “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), it appeared, had secretly accepted millions from defense contractors in exchange for lucrative federal government contracts. He even maintained a “bribe menu” and was gifted fancy antiques in exchange for public dollars. Most notably, Cunningham sold his ho...