Bill Blum
Bill Blum is a former administrative law judge and death penalty defense attorney. He is the author of three legal thrillers published by Penguin/Putnam and a contributing writer for California Lawyer Magazine. His non-fiction work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, ranging from The Nation and The Progressive to the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly and Los Angeles Magazine.
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Views Friday, July 05, 2019 Here Are 10 Questions Congress Should Ask Robert Mueller After weeks of dithering, the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees have subpoenaed Robert Mueller to testify July 17 about his investigation into Russia’s election interference and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump. Mueller has reluctantly agreed to honor the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Unequal Justice: Julian Assange Is an Enemy in Trump’s War on the First Amendment The prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act represents a dangerous turn in President Donald Trump’s war on the First Amendment. Whether you love Assange or loathe him, it is vital to understand the eighteen-count indictment filed against him on May 23 in the context... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Why Are Democrats So Scared of Impeachment? TD Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series examining the relationship between President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr, and the challenges their assertions of extreme executive authority pose to Congress. Read the first part here . Why haven’t... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 07, 2019 The Ominous Implications of William Barr’s Testimony Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series examining Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on the extent of presidential power and the challenge his assertions and relationship with President Trump present to Congress. The most shocking aspect of Attorney General William Barr’s May 1... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 26, 2019 Unequal Justice: As the Next Census Approaches, Will the Supreme Court Side with Trump in his War on Immigrants? he Supreme Court appears poised to hand Donald Trump another victory in his war on immigrants. Last year, in Trump v. Hawaii , the court upheld the President’s Muslim travel ban as a proper exercise of executive branch authority. This year’s battle, in Department of Commerce v. New York , concerns... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 26, 2019 The Dangerous and Unrelenting Extremism of Clarence Thomas Do Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices get more liberal as they age? A formidable body of academic research suggests that they do. This idea offers a sliver of comfort to those alarmed by Donald Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the nation’s most powerful judicial... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 15, 2019 This Is How American Democracy Ends “If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around it. But get to the other side of that wall.” —Donald Trump, 2004 commencement address , Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y. (unearthed by “The Daily Show”) For the time being, President Trump has toned down his threat... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 03, 2019 Donald Trump Will Not Go Quietly Like Nixon “History,” as Mark Twain reputedly remarked, “doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” As we flip the calendar to a new year, Donald Trump would be well-advised to take careful heed of Twain’s maxim. Unless Trump suddenly discovers an untapped reservoir of self-restraint, he’s going to confront... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 03, 2018 5 Reasons Trump Won’t Fire Mueller For those who fear that Donald Trump is about to lower the boom on special counsel Robert Mueller, take a deep breath and slowly exhale. Despite all you’ve heard from Trump himself, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and law professor Alan Dershowitz about the commander-in-chief’s unfettered... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 16, 2018 Unequal Justice: Ginsburg’s Ribs and the Future of SCOTUS The biggest story coming out of the U.S. Supreme Court these days is no longer the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. It’s the tumble Ruth Bader Ginsburg took in her office earlier this month, which resulted in three fractured ribs. Although Ginsburg is out of the hospital and expected to return to... Read more |