Public service, Brooklyn-style

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Updated below A couple of days ago, in the course of surveying the grotesque spectacle of the three for-profit Infilaw law schools gorging themselves on hundreds of millions of dollars per year in federal student loans, I asked if being a traditional non-profit organized for "charitable"...

End the Blue Slip

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Pema Levy notes that despite the abolition of the filibuster on most judicial appointments gridlock persists: This brings us back to Burr and May-Parker. The White House's efforts to fill the bench are being stymied by the "blue slip" process, a Senate Judiciary Committee tradition that...
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