Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
Maine Drug O.D. vs. COVID-19 Deaths To Date. Posted by Ed Folsom, November 28, 2023. As you might expect, Maine drug overdose deaths among people under age 60 versus those age 60 and older are a near mirror image of … Read More
Robert Card: Yellow Flags, Red Flags and Section 922(g). Posted by Ed Folsom, November 16, 2023. Maine Governor Janet Mills has appointed an independent commission to investigate the how and why behind Robert Card’s October 25 mass-murder of 18 people … Read More
One Jihadist Mainer Sentenced to 15 yrs, Second Awaits Trial in NY. Posted by Ed Folsom, November 9, 2023. It’s a strange thing to have 2 Mainers simultaneously facing terrorism charges in entirely unrelated plots for jihadist activities. But that’s … Read More
How Does a Grievance-Stoking Culture Stop Mass Murders? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 30, 2023. Robert Card, who shot 18 people to death and wounded 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, this past Wednesday evening, is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot … Read More
What’s Up With This ACLU Lawsuit Against the MCILS? Posted by Ed Folsom September 16, 2023 A story in today’s Portland Press Herald raises, for me, a serious question of the competence, candor and honesty of the Assistant Attorney General … Read More
5th Circuit Enjoins Biden Administration from Additional 1st Amendment Violations. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 9, 2023 Back in July, I posted about the decision of the U.S. District Court Judge in Missouri v. Biden, enjoining a number of Biden … Read More
Maine’s Chief Justice Asks Big Firm Associates to Take Appointed Cases. Posted by Ed Folsom August 29, 2023 On Thursday, August 24, 2023, Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) sent letters to seven large Maine … Read More
Statist Anti-Individualism, from Eugenic Sterilization to COVID. Posted by Ed Folsom August 14, 2023 “We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could … Read More
Trump Indictment The DOJ’s Latest Big Conspiracy Theory. Posted by Ed Folsom August 5, 2023 On Thursday, August 4, 2023, former president Donald Trump was arraigned on an indictment that lays out the Department of Justice’s latest big conspiracy theory … Read More
The Political “Left”‘s Antifascist Con, Among Others. Posted by Ed Folsom July 28, 2023 How have the politics of individualism come to be labeled “far-right” while the statist collectivism of the self-identified “left” is sold to us as “anti-fascist”? Does … Read More
