Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer BLOG
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
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
