One Utah

Let me simply say that we are now exactly in a perfect storm, where United States v. Reynolds meet Loving v. Virginia meet Lawrence v. Texas meet “Sarah” v. …well, we’re not quite sure who. Sarah v. Texas? Sarah v. United States? If Lawrence is to gay and lesbian brothers and sisters; […]

The debacle of the clash of civilizations in the Texas raids upon the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints continues past the point of severe justice. Whatever Samuel Huntington thinks, no one wins such wars.
Savagery exists now, played out with the goading of the news media, in 24/7 mode, driven to make news of the most lurid […]

When I first invited Ed Firmage (website, bio) to write for OneUtah, I asked him to write about this new canard of the religious right. Professor (Emeritus) Firmage is a preeminent Constitutional Scholar and a kind of Born again Mormon turned devout Christian.
Until Dubbya, I had never heard this new idea that the Separation […]

I’ve written on the law of presidential impeachment for appoximately thirty-five years. Some of these writings are available on OneUtah.org I’m so dreadfully tired of preaching to the choir. And such a choir. We seem, dear friends, to be a quartet. I’m even more sure you’re tired of my rant. But […]

The United States of America has not selected or elected a senator to be president, in three decades. Now is the time. With the advent of Pakistan, a REAL threat: with hundreds of nuclear weapons and no real democratic tradition or, for that matter, democratic government, however onion-skin the garments of government, into […]

I expected very little from this public relations bull-shit, and I got less. My grandfather, Hugh B. Brown, as chairman of the Democratic Party when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, travelled to Southern Utah to speak to a very large group of Democrats (back when the good guys had the majority, even in Utah, […]

I’ve written before on Mitt’s Mormonism and presidential politics (here and here). The comparison with John Kennedy is obvious: Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to achieve the presidency in American history. But he wasn’t the first to try. Al Smith did that decades before. And he lost, due in large […]

Our government is broken. Not, perhaps, beyond repair. That remains to be seen. Casey Stengel warned us not to prophecy, particularly about the future. But with absolutely no doubt, we are suffering through perhaps our most dangerous time in world history with by far the worst president in the history of the United States of […]

So it turns out that some Utah legislators stand to make big bucks on a decision they may decisively influence to bring nuclear power to Utah. We’ve done without this monstrously bad source of power all these years.
Most fundamentally, we still don’t know how to handle nuclear waste without it constituting a huge threat to […]

I hobbled, with my mate’s kindly help, toward my bedroom, over the auto’s. But my partner said, “Ed come look at this sunset ! ” So, obedient as ever to those I love, we proceeded to our sun deck. It was a literal fire show in the heavens. The Sun, having just set, hurled her […]

I’m reposting this from here because it huge, and it received no media here in Utah and no comments even on this blog. Did anyone listen?
Mary Brown Firmage is a direct descendant of a wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith & Brigham Young, and Daughter of Hugh B. Brown (who called for Blacks to hold […]

Mother’s Day began as a protest by women on the savage idiocy of war. “Not with my son, you don’t!” Variants have seen women, according to the Greeks, not having sex with the men until they stopped making war.
Gay Pride Day is upon us. To me, this is the quintessential Family Day.
How, […]

I AGREE COMPLETELY WITH MARIA RECHSTEINER IN HER FINE LETTER OF MAY 31,”MORMONISM ISN’T EXTREME.” SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, P. A 12. A CULT, AS THEY SAY, IS SOMEONE ELSE’S RELIGON. BUT I’M SURE SHE KNOWS AND DIDN’T HAVE THE SPACE OR TIME TO REMEMBER IN PRINT THAT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE IS STILL […]

Thomas Friedman, admired by me for several decades (his wife too, and his wife continuing to be right long after Thomas went wrong), has now been consistently wrong about the Middle East since 9/11. He bats a thousand, negatively, in now warning about Iran (Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday May 3l, 2007). The drums […]

Ed had planned on giving this speech which also appeared as an editorial in Saturday’s Salt Lake Tribune, entitled The time has come for an impeachment tutorial, but instead delivered the kind of impromptu oratory for which he is so loved by his law students and everyone else.
Salt Lake City A28 National Impeachment Day Protest

The impeachment clause of the American Constitution is fashioned upon the English experience with impeachment used frequently as a Rule of Law community emerged in Britain. There, the supremacy of Parliament, especially the House of Commons, was the result. As Parliament came to prevail over Tudor and Stuart monarchical power, Parliament used impeachment […]

Utah Law Review Volume 1973 (Winter) No. 4, 681-704. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
Presented to the U.S Senate in 1973.
The genesis of this document was a request by then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation to for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is perhaps […]

Duke Law Journal Volume 1974 (January) No. 6, 1023-1116. Reprinted with permission. Document PDF
The genesis of this document was a request by the then Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield via Utah Senator Ted Moss to provide a how-to in preparation for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. It is a survey of substantive law of impeachment. […]

Testimony before the Divine Strake hearings at the Utah State Capitol Jan 24, 2007
If you were to awake tomorrow, with no previous knowledge of the event, to learn that someone had detonated 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil directly under an area of the West where tons of radioactive debris still scars the […]

In response to Richard Warnick
Just for historical reasons, I’d bet that neither pary will nominate anybody from New York or Massachusetts. Religion is a side issue. BTW, did you watch Senator Harry Reid on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos yesterday? He dealt with the “Mormon question” deftly, like the practiced pol he is.
Yes, but […]