Steve Cohen is an attorney whose areas of practice are complex litigation and corporate governance for clients in the United States and around the world. He lives in South Egremont.
Let’s make this easy: We have an admission from the defendant, the president of the United States, that he knowingly violated the Constitution and started a war without the constitutionally mandated approval. He has assumed the powers of a king gladly and knowingly.
Italians are fascinated by Trump. Tuscany is very liberal, but even my more conservative friends here and in Sicily and Milan cannot understand why he continually changes his policies on a daily basis.
Alex Pretti could have been any of us, a citizen exercising his rights and cruelly killed by an occupying, untrained, and vindictive private army directed by a president with no concern for the rights of this country's citizens or those of legal or illegal immigrants.
Incredible as it may seem, our country is reversing its founding tenets as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in order to benefit a failed real estate developer and his corrupt cronies.
Are Americans so blinded that we refuse to believe what has been before our eyes and ears for four years, or do we simply ignore proven facts because we believe in something or someone and don't want to be bothered by reality?
Perhaps one lesson to be gleaned from all this is how accepting so many people were of Epstein's largess and friendship after they knew who and what he was.
It is hard for a draft dodger to appear to be macho, but Trump is giving it his best shot, saying each boat blown out of the water saves 25,000 American lives, a lie of staggering proportions that he made up with no factual support.
We are a work in progress, but Trump’s regression is outside the pall of any political actions in recent memory. We are better than this, and for that I apologize to the world for his actions
The treatment of Epstein's victims, and the inability and unwillingness to stop those ongoing felonies, reveal many of the problems in our society, which all too often provides no justice except to those who can afford to pay for it, and no concern for victims, especially sexual assault victims.
I am saddened that many do not consider that, just as many German and Italian Catholics and Protestants hated fascism, it is not considered possible for individual Jews to have profound differences with with the actions of Netanyahu's government.
Guns are the number one cause of death for children aged 17 and younger—and have been for four years. We are killing our children and do not seem to care about it.
According to the latest Gallop polling, about six in 10 Americans say it is too easy to get a gun and most gun owners say they want a gun for safety reasons. Making guns unavailable to those who should not have them would certainly help alleviate those safety fears.
I am sad to say this, but it seems we are closer to a legal coup d’etat than at any time in our history, with a Supreme Court working to insure that Trump’s illegal interpretations of government power and his use of it to punish dissent and his enemies is legitimate.
