Song of the Day 1/8: The Northern Pikes, “Girl With a Problem”
Trump’s desecration of the Department of Justice faces more roadblocks than most targets of his crime spree, if only because many federal judges – even Trump judges – are trying to apply the rule of law to a fundamentally lawless bunch of thugs. And while most get overruled by the Supremes, they keep trying.
For example, the courts ruled that Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan, beauty pageant contestant turned insurance lawyer, to the post of U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia illegally. (That’s the ruling that prompted Julianne Murray to withdraw from her post in Delaware). Halligan, however, won’t take the hint. She continues to put her name on indictments, so now a judge has demanded an explanation.
U.S. Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee, ordered Halligan to explain why she signed off as the U.S. attorney on a criminal indictment in a case before him. Novak gave her one week…
Halligan’s response – which Novak specified must be signed by her – must explain the basis for calling herself a U.S. attorney despite a court ruling to the contrary. She also has to set forth reasons why the court shouldn’t strike her name from the indictment. …
Halligan also has to explain how calling herself U.S. attorney in legal filings doesn’t constitute a false or misleading statement in violation of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, the Eastern District of Virginia Local Criminal Rules, and the Federal Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement.
Girl’s got a problem, all right.
The Northern Pikes, from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, were popular in Canada from the mid-’80s to the early ’90s but never broke through in the U.S., where they had just one single make the lower reaches of the Hot 100. Their bar-band power pop didn’t fit well with the popular taste of the times and they disbanded in 1993, then reformed at the dawn of the millennium.
“Girl With a Problem” appeared on their 1990 album “Snow in June,” the band’s high-water mark – it went Canada platinum, meaning sales reached 100,000, and the song reached No. 8 on the country’s singles chart. To make it even more Canadian, the song and video feature a short solo by the late, great Garth Hudson of The Band.
