Lloyd Constantine
Hopelessly Liberal
Lloyd is a litigator and author whose work in antitrust and civil liberties law and poor people’s advocacy in and opposed to government involves many important, controversial and heavily reported legal, political and business trends in America from the 1970s to the present.
Lloyd Constantine
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Recent Posts
HL 186 – War Factoids Constantly Reported and Facts Never Mentioned
How many score times have you read and heard reports that Rafah, where Israel is poised for a major offensive against Hamas, is a place where civilians from other parts of Gaza took refuge and were told to do that by Israel. And how many times, save right here, has it...
HL 185 – On the Pavement Thinkin About the Siege of Hamilton Hall Redux
Like the observation in HL 179 (1/17/2024) that “no American roughly my age [just] north of 75 has not had a close relationship with the atomic bomb their entire life” we ancients have another longstanding relationship that we are thinking about – the student activism...
HL 184 – Joe Lieberman: A Classic Liberal and a Real Mensch
Regular readers of Hopelessly Liberal know that the enterprise is defining and promoting classic American liberalism, as the best way toward forming that more perfect union. The reason I occasionally eulogize certain especially great liberals is to show how their...
Media
LLoyd Featured on “United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper”
Lloyd is featured in an episode of CNN’s “United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper,” focusing on the fall of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Books
Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel
Lloyd Constantine began his career in legal services, representing impoverished clients in civil rights and constitutional cases. Decades later, he would make headlines for representing retailers…
Journal of the Plague Year: An Insider’s Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer’s Short and Tragic Reign
In November 2006, Eliot Spitzer was on top of the political world, having won the New York Governorship by the greatest margin everfar outdistancing his predecessors Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.