Christopher Brauchli
Christopher Brauchli is a columnist and lawyer known nationally for his work. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Colorado School of Law where he served on the Board of Editors of the Rocky Mountain Law Review. He can be emailed at brauchli.56@post.harvard.edu. For political commentary see his web page at http://humanraceandothersports.com
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Views Saturday, January 12, 2019 Federal Workers' Woes No memory of having starred, Atones for later disregard... — Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time It’s not all taxpayers he doesn’t care about. Only the 800,000 federal employees who are not getting paid. As far as the rest of us are concerned, he wants to limit the impact as much as he can. As... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 22, 2018 An Angel and an Orphan Suffer little children to come unto me . . . . --The Gospel According to Saint Matthew Children are in the news yet again. Not the 12,800 immigrant children that were in shelters for migrant children in the United States in September 2017, a significant increase from May 2016. In that month there... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 15, 2018 Holiday Detention [F]reedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus... — Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) There are two great new Trump initiatives designed to make life in the United States less attractive for immigrants and reduce their number here. One is aimed at those who entered... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 We and the Uighurs It’s all a matter of perception. Often the outside observer doesn’t have the proper view of things and fails to appreciate that what is observed is not what is actually taking place. Consider the Uighurs in far West China and illegal immigrants along the southwest border of the United States. Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 02, 2018 The Trump and the Courts [A]s judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. — Felix Frankfurter, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) The Trump has been busy with so many things he didn’t notice that his right wing friend in Poland just took a left turn. Until that happened, they were like two peas in a pod... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 24, 2018 Birds of a Feather The long arm of coincidence. — Haddon Chambers, Captain Swift It’s just another one of those amazing coincidences and a harbinger of things to come in the United States. It was the news that Democracy’s greatest champion in Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a Trump wannabe, was... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 17, 2018 Feed the Swamp The swamp of Styx by which the gods take oath. — Aeneid, bk 6 It is a fact of political life that in the United States, what Michelle Goldberg in a recent New York Times article referred to as the “bottomless depravity” of Donald Trump, can also be applied to at least three members of Congress who... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 04, 2018 The Newborns vs. Trump Springtime for Hitler and Germany, Deutschland is happy and gay, We’re moving to a faster pace, Lookout, here comes the Master Race. — Mel Brooks, The Producers In the many years this column has appeared, it is rare that it has weighed in on constitutional issues. Occasionally, however, an issue is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 28, 2018 Sexual Identity in Trump's World Amo, Amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender, Sweet cowslip’s grace Is her nominative case, And she’s of the feminine gender! John O’Keefe, The Agreeable Surprise (1783) Herewith a brief explanation of what the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) is trying to do insofar as... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 21, 2018 The Elevation of Brett Kavanaugh No one is such a liar as the indignant man." —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Defense lawyers are wondering what the impact of Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court will be on criminal law in the United States. The question is not purely academic. What we now... Read more |