Very hectic day so here are two long videos that might interest you. And they might not…
I occasionally like watching videos by Devin James Stone, the "Legal Eagle" who explains lawyer-type stuff. He sometimes talks at the pace of a tobacco auctioneer but he seems to know his stuff and he debunks an awful lot of false information or impressions. Here he is explaining the alleged logic of the Supreme Court decision kicking Roe v. Wade outta the ring.
The argument doesn't convince me it was a dispassionate, reasoned decision. I think it was a decision made for political and person reasons and then Justice Alito found ways to justify it with questionable interpretations of laws and precedents. But if you want to understand the arguments for and against, you might learn something from the Legal Eagle. Take a look at the length of this video before you click to start watching it…
What's that you say? You're more interested in the January 6 Hearings than you are in the whole abortion battle? Well then, you might enjoy 44 minutes of Jon Stewart and his staff discussing what happened the other day in the hearing room. To the extent I have an opinion on it — I'm still kinda forming it — it's close to Mr. Stewart's…
Lastly: I'm not spending a lot of my life on the hearings and there is much I need to read before my viewpoint solidifies a bit. But when I find myself talking to friends about it, I find myself comparing and contrasting with the Watergate Hearings…and I find myself wishing Barry Goldwater was still around to go tell Trump the jig is up.
Anyway, if you want to flashback to that period, the folks at 60 Minutes have uploaded several interviews with the key players to YouTube. In hindsight, some of these conversations don't seem as hard-hitting as I thought at the time but most provide an excellent tutorial on how to try and weasel out of your own misdeeds when it's obvious you've been caught. You can watch the conversations with Alexander Butterfield, Donald Segretti, John Ehrlichman, Alexander Haig, G. Gordon Liddy and Egil Krogh. Butterfield and Haig were by and large good guys.