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Indigent defender for 40 years, sometimes writer, thought follower, flãneur.

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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Midterm Summons to Armageddon jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/midterm-su...
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Midterm Summons to Armageddon
Next Month’s Looming War of Religion. For Trump a deal is a sensation, not a resolution. Getting Vance to the Throne
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's a poignant example of "Please play me!!" as a NYT career move. Me, I haven't forgotten Laquan McDonald: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
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Rahm Emanuel, Eyeing 2028, Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about the next presidential race.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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When Mothers Kill
Juror Trauma as a Prosecutor’s Weapon
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/11/m... Latarsha Sanders, same uncontested maternal homicides, equivalent mental health crisis, same judge, same prosecutor, same retrial decision pending goes completely without mention. Down below the radar in the mental health system and the criminal justice system.
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Some lawyers think the DA should think twice before retrying Lindsay Clancy on first-degree murder charges. Here’s why. - The Boston Globe
The public statements by several jurors since a mistrial was declared in the Lindsay Clancy case could influence how Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz decides to proceed.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
John Sunnunu's NH ads damn expensive socialized medicine and praise free market doctor/ patient relations. Like these, I guess: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vicious + stupid. Suing desperate patients and seeking bench warrants, and voting for catastrophic Medicaid cut when doctors make more money when Medicaid functions. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We will also need to reduce the bias toward capital income in the tax code. ...And capital gains on investments shouldn’t escape taxes simply because those investments are passed on to heirs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Why Labor’s Share of Wealth Is Shrinking
Workers’ share of our national income is declining rapidly but we’re not sure why.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...? 5 votes for a stay on the shadow docket will be enough to give as a chaotic non-election in 2 months.
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Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions
The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Democrats running for House and Senate focus on "the Republicans" when the real weapon against there opponent GOP incumbents in closely divided House and Senate is "If you could have found 3 others with some balls...."
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
An interesting NH Senate question might be whether we're ready to return the family that gave us Clarence Thomas to a central Washington role.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Accounting for Prosecutor Safety
Discipline or Learning: It’s Both or Neither
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Where progressives can make some progress on criminal system reform: Copy post link jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/public-saf...
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Public Safety "Forward-Looking Accountability"
Where Progressives Can Make Progress on Criminal Justice
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u... Todd Blanche just bought himself a job with millions of your tax dollars.
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Blanche Is Confirmed as Attorney General After Overcoming G.O.P. Concerns
Todd Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April, eked out Senate approval, despite growing unease about his willingness to rein in President Trump.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Further proof that "polarizing" is something only Democrats can do. Odd, when you consider that the concept requires two poles. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Opinion | Can Trump Wriggle Out One Last Time?
Iran. The midterms. Can Trump wriggle out one last time?
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The lede is buried in paragraph 14: "Mr. Blanche posted a second statement saying that only Mr. Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization would be immune from audit." Blanche moves to appease two senators ahead of a vote to advance his nomination. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How about: "Mr. President, why do you need IRS immunity?" Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He May Drop Blanche Nomination, for Now www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He May Drop Blanche Nomination, for Now
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Mr. Blanche, did you ask Mr. Trump why he needs immunity from IRS investigation?" "Not in your role as his lawyer?" "Not in your role as the government's lawyer?"
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Jennifer Gonnerman, meticulous and humane, gives us a picture of the banal savagery of federal criminal practice. Who wanted this outcome? Nobody. Who colored between the lines and contributed to it? Everybody. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watched, by coincidence, the "American Experience" episode on JFK, then, today's news. Pretty strong evidence that you've lived a long, long life. That's what a President is like? Oh, right.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/18/m... Or, maybe, six deaths in, we might think they do know what they are doing: performative homicides, tacitly ratified by failure to investigate, study as sentinel events, hold accountable.
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‘They don’t know what they’re doing’: ICE agents aren’t following safety protocols during traffic stops, experts say - The Boston Globe
Longtime police officers and other experts say ICE officers are in many cases failing to follow basic safety procedures when conducting traffic stops.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No warned Jay Clayton that the Director of National Intelligence might be called on to tell the President something the President did not want to hear.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A Jay Clayton v. Joe Biden debate would make for a compelling hour of TV.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Watching the news, waiting to see whether Lindsay Graham receives an honorable New Jersey gold course gravesite.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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"Do Less Defending"
A Broken Inspector General's Report on a Breaking System
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What we're seeing in Maine is the asymmetrical contest between GOP's "Get what we want" and Dems "Show who we should be." A very stark version of the fundamental issue.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
— He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Paradox at 250: Great Threats, Small Men
Justice Alito and the Protection of Useful Racism
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Samuel Alito is obviously a deeply horrible little man, but for some reason when I think of him it's the little that strikes me. Removing him would require a tweezer.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Re-upped from last year's birthday. Maybe I should have waited: jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/trimalchio...
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Trimalchio in Triumph
Gatsby, Trump, and Bezos Throw Some Parties
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Do Trump and Susan Collins share Frances Perkins’ vision of society? | Opinion
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire made it clear that the first female Cabinet member believed we owe each other some minimum care. Where is that standard today?
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Nominates Blanche for Attorney General www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... Time for some learned commentary on the Crime/Fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege?
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Nominates Blanche for Attorney General
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 01/06/2026
Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson This book uses a tremendous amount of new historical data to illuminate how voting rights shape legislative representation. 📚 cup.org/3PNjr1B
Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Susan Collin’s or Ted Kennedy? You pick.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This SHOULD mean that the corrupt tax impunity deal is out too, but does it? Trump plans to drop the $1.8 billion fund that drew a political backlash. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
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Trump Backs Off Plan for $1.8 Billion Fund That Drew Political Backlash
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The introduction of the Trump $250 bill has been meticulously timed to meet the price of a tank of gas.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
May I ask why we see headlines proclaim the possibility of a "final" determination of a "tentative deal"?
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
196 extra-judicial murders, and the drift toward normalization accelerates: Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
The Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The NYT refers to the $40 million as a "small" fortune.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Annals of Inflation:$40 million "small fortune" F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...
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F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... There's plenty of money in Texas to fund a plausible Cornyn 3d party "Traditional Lone Star Conservative" candidacy. It's the only way those guys get back in the game,
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With Trump’s Backing, Paxton Routs Cornyn in Texas Senate G.O.P. Runoff
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u... Wait until Paragraph 10 to learn that this is a return to Feb. status quo. (And without reference to 1,000's killed and billions spent.)
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To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Agree in Principle to Reopen Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Official Says www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... I seem to have some memory of the Strait being open before we spent billions, killed hundreds of men, women, and children, etc. Might that be worth mentioning?
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Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Agree in Principle to Reopen Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Official Says
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It should be an explicit announced goal of the Democrats to declare the Trump tax impunity deal null, void, and subject to immediate cancellation. Announce it, submit a resolution, get a vote. Keep doing it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, could result in taxpayer payouts to the president’s allies.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Down there in the criminal trial courts bargaining for immunity for (for example) tax fraud is said to provide evidence of consciousness of guilt.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In Boston police shooting and LaGuardia tragedy, strikingly different approaches to the 'decisive moment' commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/in-b...
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In Boston police shooting and LaGuardia tragedy, strikingly different approaches to the 'decisive moment'
If we learn to look, every “decisive moment” can teach us what came before it, what lay beneath it, and what we can do beyond it to prevent recurrence.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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In Boston police shooting and LaGuardia tragedy, strikingly different approaches to the 'decisive moment'
If we learn to look, every “decisive moment” can teach us what came before it, what lay beneath it, and what we can do beyond it to prevent recurrence.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Herein, an attempt to console friends desolated by Janet Mills' withdrawal. jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/dirigo-the...
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"Dirigo!" The Opportunity in Maine
Saying Ay-uh to Graham Planter Running as a Mainer
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How can we owe the unlucky some help when there's no such thing as luck: Copy post link jamesdoyle.substack.com/p/the-denial...
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The Denial of Luck is the Republican Project
Deny luck exists, then exploit your luck
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It's becoming increasingly clear that Robert Caro has decided that if he outlives me he's done enough.
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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Good Job, Pam Bondi!
Welcome to the Lawyers Lounge
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