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Ron Stockton was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for 48 years. His specialty was non-western politics and political change. He taught classes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion and Politics, the Politics of Revolution, Non-Western politics, and American politics. He also taught in the Honors Program, focusing upon foundational readings from the 18th and 19th centuries. He has an interest in religion and politics and in the role of religio-ethnic groups in the political system. The listener can anticipate talks on Arab-Americans, Jews, African-Americans, the Scots-Irish, and Evangelicals. He has lectured and written on American politics, public opinion, and voting behavior and on the role of religious organizations and ideologies in the political system. There will be occasional discussions of books and films that address serious issues. And he has lectured and published and even taught a class on gravestones, especially those of different ethnic and religious groups such as Muslims, African-Americans, Jews, and Native Americans. The goal of the podcast series is to provide analysis and commentary by a political scientist to explain and make accessible political, historical, and cultural developments in the United States and around the world, and to give the listener analytical tools to understand those developments. It is also to entertain the listener.

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Classified Documents Taken By Trump. Case dropped by Trump Administration. Reposting.

January 30, 2025 • Ronald Stockton

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The Mara-Lago Classified Documents Case seemed to me to be the strongest of all the cases against Trump. Those were highly sensitive documents. Some were so sensitive that even their classifications were classified. As a private citizen Trump had no right to any of those. Moreover, he had tried to hide them, had urged others to deny they were there, and and had lied to the FBI when they came to collect them.

In late January, 2025, the new Trump administration dropped all further actions on this case. Eileen Cannon, the incompetent and highly partisan judge who was in charge of that case had ruled that the Justice Department was wrong in pursuing charges. Special investigator Jack Smith had appealed against this ruling, knowing that Cannon had made kooky rulings before and had been overruled by higher judges. Most observers though the higher courts would support Smith and reinstate the case. By dropping all further actions, the case is now ended.

This was the original posting I did on this case, discussing the Smith document charging Trump and his co-defendants and the logic of those charges.

We still do not know what Trump planned to do with those documents,, which would have been of exceptional value to foreign intelligence agencies.