Catch Up Ball

Two weeks after my post, https://stancrock.substack.com/p/the-wayward-press-part-iv a Washington Post columnist finally acknowledged the media’s failure to note Trump has no legal authority to adopt his avalanche of tariffs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/01/trump-tarrifs-supreme-court-constitution/

Crock is an ink-stained wretch who toiled in the journalism fields for three decades for The Associated Press, The Palm Beach Post, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Investopedia, TheStreet.com, and beststory.ca. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, World Affairs Journal, and Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, CNNfn, CSPAN, Fox News, and National Public Radio’s To the Point, On Point, and Here and Now.

Crock holds a B.A. in political science and a J.D. from Columbia (as John Belushi said in Animal House, “Seven years of college down the drain.”), and an M.S.J. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. After the golden era of journalism ended for him circa 2005, he worked for several consulting firms as a writer, including Accenture, McKinsey, and Abt Global. He is mentoring local newspapers and joined The Resistance after he retired April 1, 2025.