Two days, two prestigious awards: In a year where law schools came under tremendous fire from both the mainstream media and plaintiffs’ lawyers, such as Jesse Strauss and David Anziska, the call for reform coming from inside the ivory tower itself was particularly striking. Campos received a significant amount of blowback from his peers as a result […]
Month: January 2012
Three New Hampshire Republicans have proposed an, um, interesting bill: New Hampshire Republicans are taking textual originalism to a whole new level: three lawmakers have proposed a bill that require
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Flaubert — From the ABA’s web site: Wm. T. (Bill) Rob
I had planned this post for months so it’s total coincidence that it is going up the morning after this series won the Cliopatria. On January 5, 1970, the body of United Mine Workers of American reformer Jock Yablonski was discovered, six days after his death. Yablonski was murdered on the orders of UMWA president […]
Look, given the bang-up job he did running MF Global, surely Corzine deserved another luxury house or five?
Dahlia Lithwick is good on the Montana Supreme Court’s rejection of Citizens United. It probably wouldn’t save it from being overturned anyway, but the angle I would take in the same
Grover Cleveland and Chris Preble point out the nifty DoD budget cost cutting tool at the NYT. It’s not terribly hard to get to $450 billion, especially if you cut back on ground forces. I managed to get to $459 without cutting much from naval forces (1 carrier down), from benefits, or even from missile […]
Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights hero who was arrested while attending my alma mater and ended his career teaching at my native province’s flagship university, passed away at age 93. He wa
I am deeply honored to learn that my This Day in Labor History series has won this year’s History News Network Cliopatria Award for “Best Series of Posts.” According to HNN: In ̶
The problem isn’t that he’s uniquely bad. The problem is that for a Republican he’s pretty typical; he’s just blunter about the real goals of the anti-choice lobby.
Barack Obama has indeed been unduly timid when it comes to dealing with constitutional envelope-pushing by congressional Republicans, with the capitulation over the debt ceiling being the most recent
As those of you on Facebook already know, I’m in a situation similar to the Great Library Entanglement of October 2007. Point being, a number of you have written asking why I haven’t been