Donald Trump promised us his administration would hire “the best people, the very best. Not the biggest donors or biggest supporters.” As a service to readers, WC provides this updated summary table of how that’s working out. Spoiler alert: Not so good. Note this is only a partial list. As investigations proceed, WC will continue…
WC doesn’t propose to do a post-mortem on the Kavanaugh confirmation. The nearly-secret installation of the serial liar says it all. As citizens and voters, our only recourse is at the polls in November and in November 2020. We have to move on, which takes WC back to his Administrative Law course, back in law…
A rare guest post on Wickersham’s Conscience. WC saw this on Facebook, where it had been shared by a Facebook friend. WC doesn’t know Sam Turner, although, as she says, she currently lives in Bethel, Alaska, where WC lived a long time ago. This is a bit longer than the usual WC blog post, but…
A lot of folks don’t seem to understand the purpose of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh. It’s not a trial. It’s nonsense to talk about “innocent until proven guilty” and “evidence.” Those are terms for a court or administrative law performance. They have little if anything to do with…
The Anchorage Daily News reports that an 8-year old boy came forward in 2012 to report he had been sexually abused by a teacher, Lukis Nighswonger. The Wasilla Police Department now says it investigated those allegations, concluded there was insufficient evidence to support criminal charges, and closed the investigation. According to the News, “There’s so many things we…
WC has pointed out earlier than Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai is a documented serial liar. Well, he’s still at it, but this time he’s made the mistake of taking on the New York Times. The Times made a Freedom of Information Request to the FCC, seeking the FCC’s web server logs for the dates around…
Justin Schneider, for readers outside of Alaska, is a 34-year old Eagle River, Alaska man. He assaulted an Alaska Native woman. He picked her up at a gas station in Midtown Anchorage, He told he’d drive her to her boyfriend’s house, Instead, he drove her to a secluded area, attacked her, choked her until she…
