Your neighbor from the sate to the north. I feel your pain. Our congressional elections in the OKC and Tulsa metros may be competitive this year, but we’re still not close to unseating either of our horrible Senators.

I’m guessing you don’t have a law degree?

Federal law is domestic law. The immigration statutes codified in the US Code and the Regulations promulgated in the CFR, are both federal domestic law.

You have a really skewed view of federalism if you think the term “domestic law” only applies to states and not the federal…

I forget, which circle of hell is that?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I’m going to quote you on this. You summed it up so well.

Yeah. That was probably a bit of an overreaction on my part. I’m a lawyer in Oklahoma and have had to deal with his nonsense in public office since the aughts, so he really sets my temper off.

Yeah, he did the same thing in Oklahoma. When our budget was in freefall and every other department and agency was slashing funding, the AG’s office was hiring more people to staff his war against Obama’s EPA and he built a lavish new Tulsa office for the AG’s office because he didn’t want to come to OKC to work. Then…

I’m not sure how smart he is. He failed miserably as a lawyer in private practice and was bailed out by his political friends after losing a republican primary run off for lt. governor and given a job managing the ownership group for our AAA baseball team, where he worked until becoming the most unqualified AG in…

By far, back when he was our Attorney General in Oklahoma he doctored evidence at the US Supreme Court to try and speed up a man’s execution by experimental lethal injection drugs:

As my friends who practice Bankruptcy law are fond of saying, it’s never not a good time to be a Bankruptcy lawyer in Oklahoma. Before my current iteration in Oklahoma City, I used to work in Enid, Alfalfa, Major, and Woods counties. I’m intimately familiar with the people you’re talking about who get “short term…

I assume I’m the only one who thought this was a reference to the Brie Larson movie? I still laughed a lot at that thought though.

I’m friends with a couple of Democratic state legislators who I’ve known since law school and they’ll get pretty candid about their frustrations. Because of the single subject rule, they essentially have to take the Republican Speaker of the House’s word that he’ll put up all of the bills that have been for…

Thanks for the article about the fight in Oklahoma Aimee. Oklahoma lawyer and part time liberal activist here and I just want to add a little more context that’s missing here for readers from around the country and globe.

People in Oklahoma, especially in the education community, are particularly frustrated because…

The New York Times estimates Pruitt’s personal wealth between $210,000 and $551,000.

It really affirmed my love for Drew Magary though. Maybe I’m reading too much into his comments but I feel like he’s taking a sarcastic jab at everyone else clutching their pearls.

Did some graduate work on English Protestant Reformation literature and concur with you from a very general historical perspective.

I don’t usually recommend Harold Bloom, but he’s got a bit somewhere in his book “The Western Cannon” where he takes this formula of Catholicism - Death/Bodily Mutilation; Protestantism -…

Highest grossing R rated movie in the United States of America - Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”
Highest grossing R rated movie Worldwide - “Deadpool”

That tells me about everything I need to know about America’s cultural sensibilities.

If anyone doesn’t understand how important it is to get him removed from office in disgrace, it’s bigger than climate and oil. This is who Trump is going to tap to replace Jeff Sessions and fire Robert Mueller.

Pruitt committed perjury in his Senate confirmation hearings.No one denies this. He said as Oklahoma AG he never communicated with oil companies. We have stacks of e-mails proving that he lied.

Bill Clinton was disbarred by the Arkansas Bar Association for one instance of perjury during a deposition in Jones v.…

It’s like Fred Armisen and John Bernthal had a baby whose skull was squeezed during delivery.