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  • Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake

    Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Law a la carte

    The entire ''fired attorneys'' mess is another face of the larger problem. That problem is that the Bush-type Republicans will do anything, say anything, try anything to increase their power to use the authority and resources of the U.S. government on every level for their own benefit. All the machinations, the gerrymandering, the voter ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Telemachus on June 8, 2007

  • Lawyers' duties

    I was going to write a post about how government lawyers are different from lawyers in private practice. I was going to note that government lawyers (and, particularly, those in appointed positions) swear an oath to defend the Constitution. I was going to describe how prosecutors, for instance, are charged with working for justice, which means ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by randy-khan on June 8, 2007