By John P. Flannery
No more pettifoggery.
Biden favors releasing documents that implicate Trump in the 1/6 insurrection. The Select Committee should get those documents & release them immediately.
Stop “protecting” we the people from the full truth. Use the power available.
Don’t dilute it.
Fight afterwards, if we must…
By John P. Flannery
The Republicans packed the Supreme Court with three Justices, the worrisome threesome I call them, which begs the question, how does one repair what Trump and McConnell did?
With the replacement of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court profile reflected a 6–3 conservative majority after…
by John P. Flannery
Whatever one thinks of capital punishment, there must be general agreement that the state should never execute an innocent man or woman.
Our criminal justice is so badly broken, no one should be sentenced to death.
I’ve argued in and out of court to abolish capital…
by John P. Flannery
The Reverend Martin Luther King compared himself to Moses who led his people out of slavery, saw the Promised Land, but never got there himself.
In April of 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis, Tennessee supporting a garbage workers’ strike.
On the evening of April…
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SCW Cultural Arts at Emanuel presents Video Conversation with John Flannery & Joyce Vance, moderated by Errol Louis
On Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 3:00PM, Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a Video Conversation with former federal appellate law…
by John P. Flannery
Donald J. Trump has played out his hand, lost the presidential election, proven himself a bad loser, and will soon confront all those offenses he committed in his 2016 election campaign and since.
Is it necessary — to investigate and perhaps prosecute Trump?
It is if…
by John P.Flannery
Back in 1974, when the Justice Department was asked whether Nixon could pardon himself, the opinion was, “No.”
This is an excerpt of that memo.
Starting off with the section of the constitution dealing with pardons, DOJ had this to say those many years ago.
“Pursuant to…
By John P. Flannery
Trump and Giuliani appear unable to conquer their shared self-pity and despair, and so, drawing upon art and biblical myth, we may conclude that, unlike Samson, they will not be restored to whatever “storied” strength they may claim to have enjoyed.
Following the election on November…
by John P. Flannery
Trump believes he can’t win this election.
He may be wrong — but he believes it.
Recent events including the polls and fund raising for Biden suggest that he’s right.
Trump has therefore assumed the worst, and attacked the fairness of the election with spurious claims…
by John P. Flannery
On Friday, September 18, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at age 87 from pancreatic cancer.
Justice Ginsburg had been fighting one form of cancer or another since 1999.
Despite her illness, the Justice marched on, in court, and out of court.
Though slight…
