Category: Lawyers & Judges

Clarence Darrow is a well-known libertarian lawyer who defended highly unpopular cases. He is most famous for is the Scopes Monkey Trial. Darrow, at the behest of the then nascent American Civil Liberties (ACLU) and in collusion with the school’s superintendent , approached a Tennessee high school teacher to claim he had lost his position […]

Goldsmith’s degree for Starr’s ascendant is rather amusing. He writes A man walks out on his front porch at daybreak. The paper-boy throws a newspaper, which lands squarely at his feet, revealing a sensational headline, well Starr did seem to have a knack for headlines. Kenneth Starr’s oddities Another oddity about Starr, is for a […]

The many facets of Justice Byrnes James F. Byrnes was a lawyer with no formal education, something you would never see today,  and so is remarkable.  More striking is he had an influential role in the political careers of presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon.  Despite ending his scholastic career at […]

Fred Korematsu challenged FDR's  now controversial Executive Order forcing Japanese-Americans only, to leave their home and report to an interment camp in the aftermath of the bombing of the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Celestiology looks at the charts.

AUSTIN, Tex. — Steve Mostyn, a Texas trial lawyer and one of the nation’s leading Democratic donors, who spent a fortune in a long effort to turn his reliably red home state blue, died on Wednesday at his home in Houston. He was 46. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled the death a […]

U.S. Attorney John Durham may wait until after the 2020 presidential election to make his conclusions public on the Ukraine-gate scandal because as his ascendant shows, Aries 30, he needs to get his ducks all set up in a row. This meticulousness borders on procrastination and indecision — aka who can he afford to hurt […]

Andrew Macbeth Anderson DL was a lawyer and  writer on Scottish  criminal law.   See here for a list of his works available for viewing on HathiTrust.  It is rather amusing how it starts off with “Dole” i.e. British welfare, from David Hume, the Scots philosopher.  His line of vitality or the Scorpio Sun opposing its […]

The trial against the two men charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to the deadly 2016 “Ghost Ship” warehouse fire in Oakland, California ended Thursday with a mistrial for one of the defendants and a full acquittal for the other. Derick Almena and Max Harris both faced 39 years if found guilty of the 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter; […]

I got interested in Lara watching Netflix’s Narcos, he was a welcome bolt of fresh air. The show is a real blast of the 1980’s past as the production team did a fine job and many of the actors were good as well. So here is a late obit to Mr. Rodrigo Lara for a […]

Highlighting the Line of Motivation in the chart of Attorney General William Barr.

Astrological study of the great and honourable Indian jurist, Sir Guradas Banerjee.

I don’t know if 29 Gemini is his ascendant, but putting together all the various dates out there on his marriage, schooling and current legal problem it seems to work. The red transit outer chart is for today, August 18th  as the jury is hung and cannot come to a decision.  Also, the place is […]