Welcome to Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on political and legal news that often gets buried in distractions and theater. Two important things: FIRST, the headings will guide you through this piece. The Main Course covers the “big” stories and The Sides covers the “smaller” stories. SECOND, there is now an audio TLDR of the Main Course […]
Welcome to the second part of my weekly summary and analysis of political-legal news: Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on the smaller stories that were overlooked in the landslide of big news like the impeachment inquiry. Starting next week, I’m going back to just doing the recap as a single post. If you […]
Welcome to the second part of my weekly summary and analysis of political-legal news: Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on the smaller stories that were overlooked in the landslide of big news like the impeachment inquiry. Why care about these “small” stories? In any other administration, these events would be the big […]
A network of troll/bot accounts on Twitter are pushing for war with Iran. Normally, this wouldn’t be news – except the movement has merged with Trump supporters and Qanon followers, even entering the White House. Read my new piece here
Almost exactly a month ago, Steve Mnuchin and the IRS failed to comply with House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal’s subpoena for Trump’s taxes. Since then, nothing has happened. On May 22, three weeks ago, New York State passed a law that allows the House Ways and Means Committee to request an individual’s state tax returns, including Trump’s. […]
[see update at bottom of post] Yesterday, the Office of Legal Counsel released an opinion that Congress cannot compel McGahn to testify about his official duties when he worked in the White House. Trump then sent a letter to McGahn directing him not to testify. McGahn told Chairman Nadler he will not show up today […]
Hi everyone! In case you missed it: I am now writing a bi-weekly newsletter for CAFE (Preet Bharara’s company) called CAFE Brief, where I recap news and analysis of politically charged legal matters. This will become a daily newsletter eventually. For more explanation, see here. SUBSCRIBE to get the newsletter in your inbox twice a […]
Hi everyone! In case you missed it last week: I am now writing a bi-weekly newsletter for CAFE (Preet Bharara’s company) called CAFE Brief, where I recap news and analysis of politically charged legal matters. This will become a daily newsletter eventually. For more explanation, see here. SUBSCRIBE to get the newsletter in your inbox […]
The recap for this week (that will review March 10-16) will be posted on Tuesday instead of Monday. I’m sorry, I have 2.2k words written, it looks like to fully recap last week it needs to be at least 4.5k. I’ll make sure it’s extra good!
