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 02, 2021 The Trump and Jesus Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. —The Holy Bible, The Book of Nehemiah It was a great week for forgiveness. It was the week that the Christian world was celebrating the birth of Christ. Christ was a friend to sinners during his brief life... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 26, 2020 Cybernetics and the Trump It was a joyous occasion and it was only too bad that the trump was unable to attend because of the press of business in what, during his tenure became known as the "Offal Office." The occasion was the announcement of the name to be given to those serving in a new branch of the armed forces known... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 19, 2020 Trump and Death Any man’s death diminishes me. — John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occcasions One of the things that will be remembered about the Trump tenure is the high number of people who through his good offices are no longer numbered among the living. They fall into two categories-those who have died... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 05, 2020 Crimes and Punishments Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair. — A Saying They are two sides of the same coin and given the trump's lack of interest in governing following the recent election, it is good that there is at least one coin in his pocket that retains his interest. It makes up for the fact that he... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 29, 2020 The Three Turkeys The turkey . . . is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. - Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Sarah Bache It was the juxtaposition that instantly drew the observer’s attention- pictures of President-elect Biden in Delaware on November 24, standing with future... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 21, 2020 Dreams I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers. — Walt Whitman, The Sleepers It was poetic justice. It is, of course, hard to think of something poetic and the trump in the same thought, but that is what it was-the election and the judge’s ruling. The... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 14, 2020 The Trump and the FED Possession is eleven points in the law. Colley Cibber, Woman’s Wit (1697) There is an elephant in the closet that in just two months will almost certainly appear and, herewith, an answer as to how it can be dealt with, together with a description of a possible procedural problem inherent in the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 31, 2020 The Email and the Election His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it, never is at home. —William Cowper, Conversation One of the exciting things to which we can look forward on November 4 is the return of the inbox on the computer to something we remember from what now seems like long ago. What we have... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 24, 2020 The Art of Packing "[T]he Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders. . . ." — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Federal courts are a lot like suitcases as events over the last 5 years have shown. There are many different ways to pack them... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 17, 2020 The Monster and the Trump High thoughts must have high language. —Aristophanes, The Birds The questions that many have posed after listening to the trump’s interview with his personal news outlet, Fox, and its many iterations and bloviators, is whether the Executive Order issued on September 22, 2020 was intended to address... Read more |