Manifest Injustice: Hunter, Hemani, & Buh-Bye Blanche
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court just moved the goalposts on federal sentencing — and the next AG fight starts now. If federal defendants could trust that pleading guilty meant a predictable outcome, then the system would actually function the way it’s sold to them. ⚖️ But SCOTUS just complicated that bargain. In Hunter, it…
For My Enemies, the Law
More than ever, we live in a country of selective justice. Some commit crimes with impunity and others are forced to run the gauntlet. The events of last week contain many stark examples, from prosecutions to pardons. Mark Allenbaugh and I couldn’t wait until the new year to talk about it. So, here’s one last…
DePape (Pelosi Attacker) Sentencing Post-Mortem
It shocked the nation when David DePape, driven by insane QAnon conspiracy theories, violently attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A federal judge recently sentenced DePape to 30 years in prison. With that de facto life sentence looming, we uncover a legal twist: the judge’s oversight during sentencing denied him the chance…
