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The Obama Administration and Labor

Posted on December 12, 2008
The American Prospect has a good, lengthy article about the infant Obama administration and its movement within the labor movement thus far as the fight to get the Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA")... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

John Ashcroft: "I'm stunned at the response of so many people in America that people who are POWs should be tried."

Posted on December 12, 2008
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Petition Watch: Ricci v. DeStefano

Posted on December 12, 2008
For all you employment law wonks like me, Stuart Taylor has an in-depth and interesting article in The National Journal about a pivotal case the Supreme Court of the United States is considering cert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Why God Killed the Dinosaurs [Digg]

Posted on December 12, 2008
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Death Sentences and Executions Dropped in 2008

Posted on December 11, 2008
In a year-end report by the Death Penalty Information Center it was revealed that death sentences and executions were down in 2008 from 2007 with executions at a 14-year low. The Death Penalty... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

When Americans Were Enemy Combatants

Posted on December 11, 2008
Columbia Law Professor John Fabian Witt has an article on Slate.com about Americans as enemy combatants during the Revolutionary War and the ideological parallels to today's policy regarding enemy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Did Patrick Fitzgerald Bring a Case Against Governor Blagojevich Before He Was Ready?

Posted on December 11, 2008
Scott Turrow, a former Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, thinks so and yesterday's outing of Jesse Jackson Jr. may lend further credence to the theory. By outing Jackson, because... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Friday's Full Moon Will Be Year's Biggest

Posted on December 10, 2008
This Friday the moon will be at perigee--the opposite of apogee. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Jon Stewart vs. Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage

Posted on December 10, 2008
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The Difficulty in Closing Guantanamo Bay

Posted on December 10, 2008
The authors of two very informative and influential books on the law, post-9/11 and our approach to terrorism, Jack Goldsmith ("The Terror Presidency") and Benjamin Wittes ("Law and the Long War"),... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Ledbetter Pt. 2?

Posted on December 09, 2008
Tomorrow the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen, a case eerily similar to the Court's notorious decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. At... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Want Your Case Heard by the Supreme Court? File an Amicus Brief with Your Petition for Cert

Posted on December 08, 2008
So says Adam Chandler over at Slate.com. Chandler wishes liberal groups would practice the tactic more as statistics support doing so. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Updating Business School Curriculum

Posted on December 08, 2008
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New iPhone Application: Law in a Flash

Posted on December 08, 2008
Yesterday I was browsing iPhone applications and noticed there is now an application called "Law in a Flash: Criminal Procedure." It is selling for $34.99 and had good reviews. TechnoEsq. has more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Remains of Detroit [Photos] [Digg]

Posted on December 07, 2008
Photographer Sean Hemmerle finds an elegiac sign of America's fading industrial might in the crumbling urban ruins of the Motor City.

"Meet the Press" Officially Given to David Gregory

Posted on December 07, 2008
The rumors confirmed, my Chuck Todd hopes dead: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Downpour over the Atlantic [Digg]

Posted on December 07, 2008
The rumors confirmed, my Chuck Todd hopes dead:\n\n\n\n[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]\n

"The Recession Started in 2007"

Posted on December 05, 2008
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Friday is the 75th Anniversary of Repeal Day

Posted on December 04, 2008
Repeal Day is the day celebrating Congress' repeal of alcohol prohibition that was constitutionally amended into the 18th Amendment in 1919. Reason.com's Radley Balko has an article paralleling the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Chris Matthews Running for Senate in Pennsylvania?

Posted on December 04, 2008
Politico.com is reporting MSNBC's Chris Matthews is pretty serious about a Senate seat in Pennsylvania that he has done what Al Franken did in Minnesota and picked out a home in Philadelphia to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

New Nixon Tapes Released Feature Conversation with Former Chief Justice Warren Berger

Posted on December 03, 2008
Discussing Miller v. California: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Craigslist Rant Leads to Rare Criminal Libel Suit

Posted on December 03, 2008
Colorado has a criminal libel statute that bans statements "tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead" or that "impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or expose the natural... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen hangs up on Barack Obama. Twice. [Digg]

Posted on December 03, 2008
On Wednesday, the Republican congresswoman got a call from President-elect Barack Obama, didn't believe it was him, and hung up on him. Twice.

Lunch [Digg]

Posted on December 03, 2008
On Wednesday, the Republican congresswoman got a call from President-elect Barack Obama, didn\'t believe it was him, and hung up on him. Twice.

"Meet the Press with David Gregory"?

Posted on December 02, 2008
The rumor mill surrounding "Meet the Press" and its next host is busy these days and Politico.com, via The Huffington Post, is reporting that David Gregory, currently the host of MSNBC's 1600... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Curious iPhone Application Update

Posted on December 02, 2008
Something I should know about?: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Obama Cabinet

Posted on December 02, 2008
By Scott Stantis: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Canadian Meteor Remnants Found

Posted on December 01, 2008
Scientists in Canada finally found fragments of the meteor seen around the world on YouTube. University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hillary Clinton to be Announced as Secretary of State

Posted on December 01, 2008
Today, around 10:40 a.m. ET. Also: The officials said Obama is also expected to finally confirm that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post. Obama plans to name retired... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The ABA's Second Annual Blawg 100

Posted on December 01, 2008
Didn't make it again this year, but here's the list the ABA came up with this year. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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