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How to Lose a Lawsuit

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

No lawyer would ever advise a client to do what Donald Trump has done. He has perfected the art, if you can call it that, of attacking and trying to intimidate the judges who will decide his fate. In New York, at the conclusion of his fraud trial -- which is not a jury trial, but will be decided by the judge -- he stood up and declared the ...Read more

Where Was Lloyd?

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

It is exactly what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III did not want.

Clearly, he didn't want anyone to know that he, like millions of American men, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. By not telling his commanding officer, the president, and not disclosing his surgery and his infection, and insisting on keeping secret his hospitalization ...Read more

The Supreme Court and the Trump Cases

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

The question is not when the Supreme Court will weigh in on Donald Trump's eligibility to serve as president of the United States but if it will do so at all. It already resisted one opportunity when it refused to fast track the appeal of the district court's ruling that he is not absolutely immune from criminal liability for acts committed ...Read more

The Al Shifa Hospital and Hamas

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

Israel was roundly attacked around the world for targeting the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza last November. In the United Nations, and in the international media, Israel was condemned for its efforts to take control of the hospital. How could Israel do such a thing? Pictures filled the airwaves and the newspapers of civilians who had taken refuge ...Read more

'How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence'

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

That is what The New York Times called it after a two-month investigation in which they reviewed video and photographic evidence, and interviewed some 150 people: "weaponiz(ing) sexual violence." Israelis have been talking about it for months, horrified at those who wouldn't believe it. Hamas has denied it, but at this point, there is no ...Read more

 

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