Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Progressivism’s Cognitive Infrastructure Police Scrub the Public Square. Posted by Ed Folsom, July 8, 2023. On July 4th, in Missouri v. Biden, a federal judge issued a ruling that enjoins certain U.S. Government administrative agencies and Biden administrative officials from … Read More
Now RFK, Jr., is a Threat to Democracy Too? Posted by Ed Folsom, June 27, 2023. According to the latest-Party-line-thing machinery, RFK, Jr., is now a “threat to democracy.” My local newspaper, the Maine Sunday Telegram, recently picked up an … Read More
Posted by Ed Folsom January 13, 2023. Now Also on Substack. I’ve started putting my posts up on Substack, here. Who knows? I might eventually have to migrate there.
Maine Legislature Proceeds With Hearsay Exception For Personal Circumstances. Posted by Ed Folsom June 5, 2023 This is a follow-up to my previous post (here) regarding Maine LD 765 (2023), formerly titled “An Act to Permit Recordings of a Protected … Read More
Auto-totalitarian Signs. Posted by Ed Folsom, June 2, 2023. I continue to be intrigued by Vaclav Havel’s essay, The Power of the Powerless. Havel wrote it from the belly of the socialist beast that was 1978 Czechoslovakia, then a satellite … Read More
Asylum Seekers Arriving In Portland at Astronomical Pop-Based Rate. Posted by Ed Folsom, May 23, 2023 The magnificence of nonchalant understatement in the following passage in today’s Portland Press Herald about blew me away: “More than a quarter-million people filed … Read More
Disparate Impact: Ironclad Proof of Systemic Misandry? Posted by Ed Folsom, April 25, 2023. Have you noticed the never-ending search in the public discourse for disparate outcomes as automatic, ironclad proof of systemic injustice at work? For instance, fairly early … Read More
To Forgive is Divine. To Forget Would be Abject Stupidity. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 23, 2023. On December 22, 2022, a series of news headlines all told us essentially the same thing: U.S. life expectancy dropped again in 2021 … Read More
Who, Whom? January 6 and the undifferentiated breadth of Sarbanes-Oxley. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 14, 2023. In 2002, the U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. The bill was intended to improve auditing practices and the public disclosure of financial … Read More
Update on Three Maine Men Charged with Terrorism. Posted by Ed Folsom, April 8, 2023 On Friday, April 7, 2023, Xavier Pelkey, of Waterville, one of three Maine men currently facing terrorism charges for plots or actions outside Maine, pleaded … Read More
