I mean, the Castle Doctrine is a pretty universal part of common law. It simply says that, if you are in your own home, you are allowed to defend yourself when faced with a threat, even if you could have safely run away. Pretty much every State has a castle doctrine.

I was actually very curious as to how the judge would handle this. In a case where the defendant claims self-defense, the jury is instructed to ignore the objective reality of the situation and just imagine that a reasonable person was in the same situation knowing and feeling exactly the subjective point of view of…

A 50% discount for life at all Trump properties.

Not all domestic terrorism has been from the right, but all domestic terrorism murders since 2018 have been. The last lethal, non-right wing terrorist attack was an ISIS inspired attack in New York City that left 8 people dead back in 2017. The last left-wing attack was in 2016, the lethal shooting of 5 Dallas police…

Seeing as our nation has seen slavery, the genocide of the native peoples of the Americas, the Trail of Tears, the Civil War, and the post-reconstruction terrorism against African Americans in the South, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the, “explosion of white violence” after Trump leaves office will be not…

Left-wing terrorism is at an all time low. It went from being the most common type of domestic terrorism in the 1970s to comprising only a few percentage of domestic terrorism deaths in the last decade. Almost all lethal domestic terrorism these days is Islamic or some sort of right-wing terrorism (white nationalist,…

The Supreme Court might get involved in deciding how individual states count their votes (like they did in Florida in 2000), but once it has moved toward the actual electoral vote stage, I don’t think they will involve themselves at all. At that point, it is up to each elector to cast his vote and for congress to…

It is possible, but I don’t think it is very likely given his continued popularity among the GOP’s voters. But then again, Nixon enjoyed Republican support on the impeachment issue. . . . until he didn’t, so you never know what single thing could come out in the next 12 months to shift the GOPs opinion.

The idea that some people have that we’re on the verge of a bunch of Trump supporters with guns actually organizing themselves into a paramilitary force and storming Manhattan is ridiculous and far-fetched.

What Clinton did was wrong and if she was a civilian or military employee, she probably would have been fired for it. In an ideal world, she would not have been the Democratic candidate because of her behavior.

The good old boy network usually means the connections from powerful families or connections that people make at prestigious places like the frat houses of Ivy League universities.

Deep State: career government employees who were serving the people of the United States long before the Trump administration and will still be serving the people of the United States when there is a new set of clowns running the show in Washington.

Miller did not get into his position of power through the Good old Boy Network. That’s how someone like Bush Jr. got into power. Miller got into power because he’s an opportunist that spent his adult life trying to ride someone’s coattails up the ladder of power. He had the good fortune to jump on the Trump bandwagon…

This is semantic sophistry.

I do not think the danger is too great. There are a lot of people that Trump has incited his base against and while they do get harassed and threatened, so far none of them have actually been gunned down.

It is clearly not an accident, at least not in the legal sense. She intended to shoot him. The gun did not go off accidentally. The evidence also clearly fails to disprove her assertion that she believed she was acting in self-defense.

Questions of abuse of power are generally ethical questions, not moral ones. Morality only deals with extremely basic tenets that cannot be objectively proven or disproven (like is it wrong to kill someone unnecessarily?). Issues regarding abuse of power would generally be questions of ethics, not morality.  

“For some, the reticence that comes out of the administration on non-energy components, some of the things he may say about some other issues or you may read tweets about, may suggest to yourself that you don’t want to have speeches like this for the next 25 years or get introduced as such-and-such from the Trump…

That hasn’t really stopped Trump administration officials from ignoring subpoenas. The only real choices congress has is to either refer Trump administration officials to Trump’s Justice Department for prosecution (good luck there) or pursue contempt of congress in civil court (which might not be resolved before the…

Morals are about basic right and wrong questions. None of these things are moral issues, ones of basic right and wrong. They are ethical issues, and ethics is a complex subject.