Also: Florida will not kill James Duckett this week. And: What's next for conversion therapy bans after Tuesday's SCOTUS decision? Lastly: Law Dork in the media.
I am no lawyer, but i do not see barring conversion therapy as a free speech issue...at all. To me, it is an issue of professional standards of competence and do-no-harm, and needs to be firmly established and monitored by the professional organization(s) that license therapists. Surely there are words that a competent, responsible therapist cannot say to a client, i.e. maybe you should just kill yourself (to take an extreme example, but conversion therapy can result in suicide by clients). No one but a sadist would suggest that this is a "free speech" issue. Judges lack expertise in the therapeutic realm, and it seems completely wrongheaded for them to approach it as they are doing. The licensing boards for therapists have the research in hand about the harm conversion therapy can cause, and they need to stand up and make it clear that if a therapist does this, they will lose their license, like any professional healer who does malpractice.
Before Pam Bondi became Trumps “personal lawyer”, in appearance. Because Trump doesn’t care about appearance, he relishes in it. Todd Blanche was his “personal lawyer,” now he is the acting Attorney General and still his “personal lawyer,” In appearance. If Lee Zeldin is put forth as the replacement to Bondi, well, Todd Blanche will still be Trump’s henchman and “personal lawyer.” Same as it ever was!
Bondi was horrible. Her departure will somewhat hurt Trump, since it suggests there are problems. Okay. Yay!
We will grant that. People won't be too happy. First, she was fired partly because she wasn't bad enough (Trump was annoyed that she didn't bring more political persecutions or that the Epstein Files even made him look bad). Will the next person be WORSE?
The long-time issue is how corrupt the Justice Department will be. Will it be any better? Could be worse, as someone notes, under Blanche. Don't know how it will be under Zeldin.
A few people will say, "See, Trump got rid of her ... things are better now!" when it might at best be cosmetic. Any credit taken will be fake.
So, I understand, even those who "read the piece!" are cynical. If things get worse, for instance, how happy will they be? Be like a short-term drug and a long-term pain. Different secretaries will, in effect, be baked into the overall corrupt process.
If Bondi's leaving is the first step to things getting worse, how good is it, you know? But I know. We should take the good with the bad, including some evidence that total corruption puts some pressure on them for change.
We have plenty of history to suggest that any job swap in the Cabinet moves leadership toward "more incompetent, compliant, craven, and corrupt." Trump is angry because Bondi wasn't corrupt *enough*.
Here’s the inconsistency LAW DORK can’t dodge: if the sin is being “Trump’s lawyer,” then your problem isn’t Pam Bondi—it’s Todd Blanche, who actually held that role and now sits as interim Attorney General. By your own logic, things didn’t improve—they escalated. But what you’re ignoring is the record. Blanche wasn’t a figurehead; he was the operator running DOJ’s engine—terror cases, cartel takedowns, institutional enforcement at scale. That’s not a crisis—it’s continuity. And if names like Lee Zeldin or Harmeet Dhillon follow, the reforms aren’t stopping—they’re accelerating.
A welcome dismissal! But probably just a change of scenery from the Barbies to “serious” menfolk … but is the damage to the DoJ reparable?
As in Ken-Ken?
Absolutely! Trump can’t can Ken-Ken, can he?
He might, if Ken can't cancan...
In Cancun.
Exactly! Or in court-court.
Wearing shorts, sport.
I am no lawyer, but i do not see barring conversion therapy as a free speech issue...at all. To me, it is an issue of professional standards of competence and do-no-harm, and needs to be firmly established and monitored by the professional organization(s) that license therapists. Surely there are words that a competent, responsible therapist cannot say to a client, i.e. maybe you should just kill yourself (to take an extreme example, but conversion therapy can result in suicide by clients). No one but a sadist would suggest that this is a "free speech" issue. Judges lack expertise in the therapeutic realm, and it seems completely wrongheaded for them to approach it as they are doing. The licensing boards for therapists have the research in hand about the harm conversion therapy can cause, and they need to stand up and make it clear that if a therapist does this, they will lose their license, like any professional healer who does malpractice.
Before Pam Bondi became Trumps “personal lawyer”, in appearance. Because Trump doesn’t care about appearance, he relishes in it. Todd Blanche was his “personal lawyer,” now he is the acting Attorney General and still his “personal lawyer,” In appearance. If Lee Zeldin is put forth as the replacement to Bondi, well, Todd Blanche will still be Trump’s henchman and “personal lawyer.” Same as it ever was!
Thanks for mentioning TFDP! Florida currently has two other executions scheduled, which I'm also covering.
Bondi was horrible. Her departure will somewhat hurt Trump, since it suggests there are problems. Okay. Yay!
We will grant that. People won't be too happy. First, she was fired partly because she wasn't bad enough (Trump was annoyed that she didn't bring more political persecutions or that the Epstein Files even made him look bad). Will the next person be WORSE?
The long-time issue is how corrupt the Justice Department will be. Will it be any better? Could be worse, as someone notes, under Blanche. Don't know how it will be under Zeldin.
A few people will say, "See, Trump got rid of her ... things are better now!" when it might at best be cosmetic. Any credit taken will be fake.
So, I understand, even those who "read the piece!" are cynical. If things get worse, for instance, how happy will they be? Be like a short-term drug and a long-term pain. Different secretaries will, in effect, be baked into the overall corrupt process.
If Bondi's leaving is the first step to things getting worse, how good is it, you know? But I know. We should take the good with the bad, including some evidence that total corruption puts some pressure on them for change.
We have plenty of history to suggest that any job swap in the Cabinet moves leadership toward "more incompetent, compliant, craven, and corrupt." Trump is angry because Bondi wasn't corrupt *enough*.
Here’s the inconsistency LAW DORK can’t dodge: if the sin is being “Trump’s lawyer,” then your problem isn’t Pam Bondi—it’s Todd Blanche, who actually held that role and now sits as interim Attorney General. By your own logic, things didn’t improve—they escalated. But what you’re ignoring is the record. Blanche wasn’t a figurehead; he was the operator running DOJ’s engine—terror cases, cartel takedowns, institutional enforcement at scale. That’s not a crisis—it’s continuity. And if names like Lee Zeldin or Harmeet Dhillon follow, the reforms aren’t stopping—they’re accelerating.