Blog No. 281 discussed Donald Trump’s potential criminal liability stemming from his role in the January 6 insurrection, and promised that Part II would assess… Read More »Blog No. 282 After Acquittal: What Now? (Part II)
Since the last Bulletin on October 7, several of Trump’s new lows arose in the course of the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives.… Read More »Trump New Lows Tracker. Bulletin No. 4 (New Lows Nos. 11-14) v2
Since the last Bulletin on October 7, several of Trump’s new lows arose in the course of the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives.… Read More »Trump New Lows Tracker. Bulletin No. 4 (New Lows Nos. 11-14
Winston Churchill’s observation concerning democracy has seldom seemed more apt: No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is… Read More »Blog No. 219 Constitutional Crisis? No, Not Yet.
Michael Cohen’s public hearing before the House Oversight Committee has produced a small avalanche of opinion and analysis in the media. Yet it is… Read More »Blog No. 209. The Cohen Follies: What Did They Tell Us and What Now?
In Blog No. 115 we suggested that, even if Donald Trump persisted in his refusal to disclose his tax returns, he should be pressed to disclose key information from the returns. An excellent column in Friday’s New York Times by James Stewart makes just that point: “Keep the Returns, Trump; Just Give Us a Few Figures.” As Stewart put it:
So just give us this: your adjusted gross income and actual federal taxes paid for the last five years, certified by your accountants. That’s a total of 10 numbers, which would fit on a single page.
Those are numbers any taxpayer can understand. They wouldn’t tell the I.R.S. anything it doesn’t already know.
And while they wouldn’t answer many of the questions that have swirled around your finances, they would lay to rest once and for all the most basic question: How much, if anything, do you pay in federal taxes?
Read More »An Afternote to Blog 115: Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
Coming on Tuesday and Thursday nights of last week, President Obama’s State of the Union message and the sixth Republican debate combined to make a depressing package of television viewing. For those of us in the Pacific time zone, the best that might have been said was that we did not have to stay up late to watch and that neither event interfered with regular prime time programming. Given the extensive coverage of them, we will limit our comments to a few observations.Read More »Blog No. 90. Obama’s SOTU and the Sixth Republican Debate