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The corporate court strikes again

Monday, March 15, 2010

It is a sad fact that those things to which we pay the most attention often have the least significance. A case in point is Eric Massa, who will not even rate a footnote in history. At the same time, truly significant developments often go unnoticed. It’s only years later that we realize something has […]

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More on Bysiewicz’s woes

Monday, February 8, 2010

At the risk of beating a decomposing horse, I want to reply to a comment I received on my post about Susan Bysiwicz’s legal problems. Here it is, the first paragraph being a quote from my post: Blumenthal responds that the amendment that made the AG a constitutional officer was enacted against the backdrop of […]

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Bysewicz in trouble

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Susan Bysiewicz is in a bit of trouble. She withdrew from her exploratory gubernatorial campaign, and announced her candidacy for attorney general. Turns out, however, that there is a more than reasonable legal argument that she is not qualified for the job. Here are the facts: Susan practiced law for about six years before entering […]

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Capuano moves to muzzle the corporations

Saturday, January 30, 2010

An intrepid young reporter at the Boston Globe (who shall go unnamed, but whose last name rhymes, and more, with mine) informs us that US Representative Michael E. Capuano (who in retrospect should have been nominated for the Senate) has come up with a nifty way to all but nullify the recent court ruling handing […]

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I hate to admit it, but

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

I was only a bit surprised to see that the Obama Defense Department opposed Al Franken’s amendment to forbid government contractors from forcing the victims of sexual assault into arbitration, which is the equivalent of guaranteeing them no redress. The Obama Administration has been better than Bush on civil liberties, but it’s hard to imagine […]

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Preserving Governmental Secrecy

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

It was inevitable that Obama would disappoint on a number of fronts. Anyone running on a message of hope is inviting people to see what they want to see, rather than what’s there. Even where Obama told the truth about his intentions, as with the so far terrible policy in Afghanistan, lots of folks preferred […]

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Equal justice under the law

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

A Republican/conservative activist illegally films an idiot at Acorn giving absurd tax advice. Acorn loses its federal funding, the conservative is hailed on Fox, and no one suggests that the heavy hand of the law should reach down to punish the only real illegality uncovered-the filming. Another conservative illegally tapes a phone conversation among a […]

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Weird Constitutional Theories

Monday, August 31, 2009

Think Progress reports on a Missouri School District that forced its marching band to return T-shirts it ordered. The T-Shirt’s design is depicted below. The reason? Assistant superintendent Brad Pollitt explained that the t-shirts were banned because they were imposing on religious views: Though the shirts don’t violate the school’s dress code, Pollitt noted that […]

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The Church calls on Scalia to redress an injustice

Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Boston Globe reports that the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese is trying to keep the public from seeing internal documents bearing on the decisions made by the present Cardinal of New York relating to the assignment and re-assignment of child molesting priests: A Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut has invoked the First Amendment’s separation of […]

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Afraid of empathy

Monday, July 13, 2009

Charles Grassley, who has somehow been elected a United States Senator,quakes in fear at the prospect of a judge who is able to feel empathy: President Obama said that he would nominate judges based on their ability to “empathize” in general and with certain groups in particular. This “empathy” standard is troubling to me. In […]

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