Monthly Archives: March 2025

Trump vs Big Law

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Luke Ford

After Donald Trump’s disgraceful denial of the 2020 election results, I lost all enthusiasm for him. Until he was indicted in New York on spurious grounds. Paul Rosenzweig writes for the Atlantic: The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law …Trump … Continue reading →

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Does Mike Walz know Jeffrey Goldberg?

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

Grok says: There’s no definitive evidence to confirm whether Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser, personally knows Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. The question stems from a March 2025 incident where Waltz inadvertently added Goldberg to a Signal group … Continue reading →

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How Can The Right Take Back Institutions

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

Aaron Renn writes Feb. 13: Conservatives can’t use the long march strategy because the left isn’t dumb enough to let them penetrate institutions. Instead, conservatives need to do the equivalent of a private equity buyout and restructure institutions from the … Continue reading →

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NYT: ‘Law firms are sometimes aligned with a political party.’

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

This strikes me as a disingenuous frame. Big Law is overwhelmingly on the side of the Democrats. The New York Times story has six bylines: At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line Fears that competitors … Continue reading →

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Is America about to bomb Iran?

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Luke Ford

I notice this story trending on X: The United States has significantly increased its military presence at the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean by deploying seven B-2 Spirit stealth bombers along with several support aircraft. This deployment, … Continue reading →

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