Twenty years of Roger Fitch … He says this is his last column from Washington … A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II … The Roberts’ court and reshaping the Constitution … Hollowing out the Bill of Rights … Murdoch’s malign influence … Shakedowns and bribes
Chaos fascism
Roger Fitch Esq Sunday, April 6, 2025Mobster rule … Threats and blackmail … Civil society on the edge … Tariffs and crashing markets are one thing … There are also attacks on the media, lawyers, universities, foreign students, and so-called “enemy aliens” … Roger Fitch files from a traumatised Washington
Capital crimes
Roger Fitch Esq Thursday, March 13, 2025Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon … Musk and his techie vandals … The shredder going full blast at the FBI … Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago … Cabinet clown show … White supremacy unleashed … Consumer protection prosecutions dropped … Lawyers and law firms threatened … Roger Fitch from Washington
Another Bonaparte takes the throne
Roger Fitch Esq Wednesday, January 22, 2025The Second Coming of Trump … A circus of corruption and revenge … Rewards for the “losers” … Assembling the infrastruction of authoritarianism … DoJ cases up for “negotiation” … The knavery of Louis Napoleon … Parallels aplenty … Roger Fitch files from Washington
It’s Hitlerish
Roger Fitch Esq Friday, November 8, 2024Reelection of a charlatan … Republicans take popular vote for the first time in 20 years … Amnesia … Trashing a democracy … Trump and his team of troubled men … Mainstream media wilts in the eye of the storm … Depravity, greed and revenge are the new normal … Roger Fitch files from Washington
Where’s Dwight Eisenhower when you need him?
Roger Fitch Esq Tuesday, October 15, 2024Supreme Court’s new term … Judicial culture war … Motions for Trump’s immunity determinations … Cognitive decline on the election trail … Judges waiting to muddle the election results … Election countdown … Plans for a new Supreme Court … Our US legal correspondent Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Reign of Terror
Roger Fitch Esq Friday, July 5, 2024SCOTUS … Shocker decisions from the latest term … The Trump Docket … Presidential immunity … Gratuities and bribes … Obstruction … Admin law trashed … Criminalising the homeless … Espionage Act – two sides of the coin for Assange and Trump … At last, someone convicted at Guantánamo of a real war crime … Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Courtroom capers
Roger Fitch Esq Wednesday, March 27, 2024Trump … Looking for the cash bond … Lenders likely to be stiffed … Supreme Court bends over for Trump … Novel arguments for immunity … Idiocy has its appeal … From Washington, Roger Fitch reports