Nevermind what is or is not most beneficial to the political future of Vice President Michael Pence. Our former Indiana governor has a sense of duty and the moral imperative to carry out such duty. The CLB urges the Vice President to convene a Cabinet meeting and to secure his own vote and that of […]
Update: As predicted on December 16, 2020 in the final paragraph of this Article, Leon Taylor has been caught. He was taken into custody during the morning hours of December 30, 2020. As of this writing on December 16, 2020 Leon Taylor, 22 and a former Hammond resident, is a fugitive from law enforcement. According […]
On December 9, 2020 the SCOTSI handed down its unanimous ruling taking away the new (criminal) trial that had been granted by the COA. The CLB “guaranteed” in late February of this year a Transfer Petition following the split (2/1) COA decision to order a new trial for convicted murderer Clinton Loehrlein upon evidence that […]
This analysis begins in 2016 when Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in a Texas hunting lodge cabin. President Obama, then in the final year of his second (and final) term submitted to the Senate his nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland. Fast forward to September 18, 2020 and the death of […]
It was a good 20 years or so ago when a local (Hammond) cop lived so near to me as within an adjacent block. There was often a “take-home” squad car in front of the officer’s residence. I took some comfort in that and assumed that the neighborhood was at least minimally safer by reason […]
While I intended Part Two of the “White Like Me” series to be a review of my personal history in matters of race and to thereby give context for my opinions, that review has been time-consuming and more difficult to express than I had anticipated. Meanwhile the tragedy of Breonna Taylor has become a timely […]
As of this writing only a few days have passed since the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after years of illness and at the ripe old age of 87. On the basis of mortality tables and personal medical history her death was hardly a surprise. Justice Ginsburg will be remembered as […]
This short Article pertains to the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, the 25th of August, 2020. Kyle Rittenhouse, a youth of 17 years from Antioch, Illinois took two lives with gunfire and injured a third man. There was no police involvement. There was no harm to a Black person. These circumstances take the matter […]
This brief Featured Article is provoked by local bureaucratic nonsense in the form of “Lake County Health Department Covid-19 Public Health Order 20-01.” This “Order” from the medical doctor “health officer” of the Lake County Health Department cites the purported statutory authority of IC 16-20-1 and IC 16-41-9. To its credit, the “Order” uses the […]
Introduction: The “White Like Me” series will include the observations and opinions of an aging White male lawyer and some statistics and opinions of others relative to race relations in these troubled times. In the Introduction to the CLB written nearly five years ago, I announced that race relations would be a likely topic. In […]