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Letters

Mar. 11, 2025

I was only kidding!

My column, which presented an imaginary memo supporting annexation, was intended as deadpan satire, but may have been misunderstood.

Dan Lawton

Partner, Klinedinst PC in San Diego

501 W Broadway #1100
San Diego , CA 92101

Phone: (619) 400-8000

Email: dlawton@klinedinstlaw.com

Georgetown Univ Law Center

The views expressed here are his own.

I enjoyed Dan Jacobson's fine column, "The law(lessness) of forceful annexation," Daily Journal, March 7.

Mr. Jacobson's column partly responded to my column, "Greenland bound? Trump's annexation gambit faces legal and logist...