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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Impeachment Investigation, Impeachment Vote: A Prosecution Perspective

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There are differences between the decisions facing a prosecutor in an ordinary criminal case and the decisions now facing members of the...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Time, Relativity, and the Mayfly Self

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The Physics of Time   E ven before Einstein, physics was never really supportive of our common-sense ideas about time. Humankind h...
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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Yes Collusion! 2:"Russia, if you're listening . . ."

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On 8/2/18, I devoted a post to Trump’s famous July 27, 2016, invitation, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Yes Collusion!

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Many who are pro-impeachment or tend in that direction concede that Mueller’s Volume I supports Trump’s repeated claim   “No Collusion.”...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Is Money Laundering Impeachable?

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Monday, May 6, 2019

Birthright citizenship and the 13th Amendment

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This is not a typo.   Of course it is the 14 th Amendment that contains the citizenship clause and so is front and center in every s...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

"high Crimes and Misdemeanors" as a Term of Art

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In the interpretation of enacted law terms of art , for example, “third degree of consanguinity,” have a special place.   Just how speci...
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Lawrence Crocker
My Ph.D, was from the Harvard Philosophy Department of Rawls, Putnam, Quine, Nozick, Kripke, Boyd et. al. in 1970. I taught at the University of Washington. Later with a J.D. from Duke, I clerked on the 9th Circuit, did corporate, then air crash litigation, then prosecuted in Manhattan, taught at NYU law, litigated some more, and then taught philosophy at Dartmouth, where I am now a Resident Scholar.
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