Is this widely known about the infamous OJ Simpson glove that didn't fit? From the legendary defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, who represented OJ and maintained his innocence for decades. Bailey's long-awaited book on the case was finally published the same week he died in 2021
Here is Bailey's theory of who committed the murders; he insists it was physically impossible for OJ to have done it, citing a compelling volume of evidence -- some of which was amazingly never made public before 2021
Definitely caused me to revise my presumptions about the case
Everything you think you know about this case is wrong, and mostly just a function of brainless media hype (go figure.) Bailey points out that he spent $400,000 of his own money to work the case out of conviction in OJ's innocence, and only ever received $17,000. So, do the math
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There has been no claim made that this individual fired on FBI agents, or even that he was armed at the time of the fatal altercation today. Apparently a giant squad of militarized personnel was incapable of apprehending a 75 year old man without gunning him down on his doorstep https://t.co/QZqM6VXiCN
A statement from the FBI's Salt Lake City field office also makes no mention of any agents being injured. "We have no further details to provide," the statement says. If this guy really did open fire on FBI agents, wouldn't that probably be the very first detail they'd "provide"?
This guy's offense was allegedly posting a bunch of demented memes on social media about political figures, which he apparently characterized merely as "dreams" of his. Either way, note the cheerful, credulous reaction to news of him being executed on sight in a surprise 6am raid
Jack Smith not only demanded access to Trump's Twitter account, he demanded Twitter be barred from telling anyone about it for at least 6 months. Notice when these privacy-invading demands are made by countries such as Turkey, no one has any trouble decrying it as "authoritarian"
Twitter objected to the nondisclosure order on 1st Amendment grounds, which is portrayed in this opinion as some kind of special privilege Twitter wanted to grant Trump, even though notifying users of government demands for their account information is a universal Twitter policy
Smith called for coercing Twitter into compliance with his demand to seize Trump's account information by imposing "escalating daily fines" calibrated to Elon Musk's net worth. This means within less than a week, the fine would already be "escalated" to over $1 million *per day*
The GOP fixation on Burisma is an excuse not to do real oversight of Biden's actual policy in Ukraine, which would necessarily implicate a far wider universe of corrupt actors than Biden and his idiot son -- so they much prefer to stick with the nice and convenient partisan angle
It's also an excuse to ignore or obfuscate the real underpinnings of current US policy in Ukraine -- ideological, financial, and otherwise -- and to instead give the impression that this can be neatly reduced to Biden's personal corrupt dealings. Yeah, if only it were that simple
Biden has been a hardcore liberal interventionist for decades, with particular vehemence on Russia/Ukraine/NATO. If it were just a matter of his own personal corruption, the current US policy framework would be much easier to uproot. But there's a reason it's so intractable
Last year two Boston University professors published a law review article arguing the Vice President is the sole federal officer with discretion under the 12th Amendment to determine the validity of electoral vote submissions. Presumably they risk being charged with felonies now
FYI, the argument is that the Vice President has discretion *only* to determine which physical document constitutes a state's validly-submitted electoral vote certificate. He has no discretion to determine whether the state validly allocated its electoral votes in the first place
The argument also maintains the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional and Congress has no authority to reject the legitimacy of electoral vote certificates, which are final and binding at the culmination of whichever vote-allocating process a state legislature decides to employ
It's hard to overstate how extreme the government's rhetoric has been in prosecuting Jan 6 cases, with the Trump indictment just being the latest example. DOJ claimed a wounded Iraq War vet "betrayed his nation and became an enemy of the United States" when he entered the Capitol
Here's what allegedly made this guy an "enemy of the state." Without warning, a row of fully-armored riot cops start to push. The guy instinctively reacts with two hapless punches/swipes, injuring no one. He'd been on permanent disability from neurological damage suffered in Iraq
The guy had no connection to any right-wing groups -- a friend had offered to fly him from Seattle to Philadelphia using frequent-flyer miles. "He works menial jobs when available," and his wife's employment was jeopardized on account of negative attention from his arrest in DC
Obama was already on an upward trajectory, and Dems use a proportional delegate allocation system. GOP is mostly winner-take-all, and DeSantis is trending down
By August 2007, Obama was already within the margin of error in some polls in South Carolina. Latest South Carolina GOP poll:
Trump 48%
Haley 14%
DeSantis 13%
Scott 10%
And crucially, Obama was already *leading* some polls in Iowa by this time in the 2007 cycle. Of course, he would go on to be catapulted by his victory in the caucus. Trump currently has a +33 lead in Iowa and DeSantis has fallen sharply over the past several months