Despite its name, this post isn’t actually a rant about Donald Trump.  It’s actually just an admiring observation about our legal system in a tweet posted by one of my favorite people on Twitter. Nothing in our system is self-executing. Trump can transgress every law and custom we have until enough people summon the will…

The world (or at least much of it) was caught off-guard a couple of weeks ago when millionaire reality TV actor Donald Trump won the US presidency.  He ran on a platform of (what he describes as) success as a businessman and “draining the swamp,” or clearing out all the politicians in Washington DC so that the elitists won’t…

It’s not uncommon for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear monumental court cases… it is the Supreme Court, of course.  This week stands to be a extraordinarily divisive week for one of two groups in the country as it hears both the Proposition 8 and DOMA cases.  I’ve been surprised, and for the most part…