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 Monday, April 24, 2017 Why Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Is Unfit to Be Attorney General Don’t let his languid Southern drawl or physical resemblance to the kindly Keebler elves fool you. Ever. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the nation’s 84th attorney general, is neither laid back nor kind. To the contrary, he’s the most dangerous member of the Trump Cabinet. What’s more, he’s... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Already Reached the Supreme Court If you’ve been waiting for President Donald John Trump’s war on immigrants to reach the Supreme Court, your wait is over. The battle has already begun. No, the conflict hasn’t come to the top court by way of Trump’s high-profile “Muslim ban,” which has been enjoined by a series of lower court... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 01, 2017 Meet Neil Gorsuch, the New Antonin Scalia Just when we might have thought we’d seen Donald Trump at his zaniest (say, in the first presidential debate) and most dangerous (say, in his executive order on immigration last week), he outdid himself with the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, 49, a judge from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 06, 2016 Talk of Impeaching Trump May Be Premature, But Its Time Will Come Donald Trump has yet to be inaugurated, but talk of impeachment has been in the air since the day after the election. It’s been promoted by an array of influential commentators, both progressive and conservative—from filmmaker Michael Moore on the left to New York Times columnist David Brooks on... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Donald Trump’s Empty Blustering Reveals a Narcissist Who Can’t Fathom Defeat The highlight of the third and, thankfully, final presidential debate last Wednesday came roughly at the midway point , when Donald Trump refused to say that he would accept the results of November’s election. Since then, Trump has doubled down on his position, declaring he would accept the outcome... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 02, 2016 A Crippled Supreme Court Awaits an Election in Which Hillary Clinton Is the Lesser Evil As the Supreme Court begins its new term on Oct. 3, an old adage comes to mind. It was first penned by the satirist Finley Peter Dunne in 1901. Purged of its original Irish brogue, the saying admonishes: “The Supreme Court follows the election returns.” Never has Mr. Dunne’s observation seemed more... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 23, 2016 Antonin Scalia and the Clear and Present Danger of Second Amendment Fundamentalism A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. —Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. If you’re looking for someone to blame for the continuing partisan paralysis on gun control... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Why Bernie Sanders is Still Standing According to the conventional wisdom , the quixotic presidential run of Bernie Sanders should be over. In fact, by conventional standards, his campaign should barely have gotten off the ground. As a self-described “democratic socialist” in a country where the “S” word has been anathema for most of... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 02, 2016 Keeping Wall Street Speeches Secret Speaks Volumes About Hillary Clinton It’s been roughly three months since Hillary Clinton promised, during her Feb. 4 debate with Bernie Sanders on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, to “look into” releasing the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street investment houses. If you’re a stickler for... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 13, 2016 After Antonin Scalia’s Death, What’s Next for the Supreme Court? Justice Antonin Scalia is dead , and his passing is nothing less than a legal and political earthquake. It will have a huge impact, not only on the court’s present term but on the course of constitutional law. Beginning with his appointment to the high court in 1986, Scalia was the intellectual... Read more |