Did you see that Justice Souter this week described his job on the Supreme Court as “a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy“?
Say what? Law.com, where the link above takes you, suggests this confirms what many have suspeected for sometime, namely that Souter is seriously weary of being a Justice and seriously [...]
Administrative Law is a pain. One case will purport to be the definitive standard on deference. Another case, written by the same Justice, will purport to reinforce that standard only when one reads what’s actually written there is little reinforcement happening. In fact, the Justices seem frustratingly confused on what rules and standards should govern [...]
Yesterday, I was having a rather intense discussion with an owner’s representative about one of my projects when it was rudely interrupted by a drug bust. Four Arlington County, VA (maybe they were State Troopers) jumped out of a van, raid vests on, guns drawn and surrounded this beat to crap Honda Civic, while another [...]
The cesspool that is Chicago (and by extension Illinois) politics often leaves outsiders feeling a lot like Fortinbras at the end of Hamlet: you just can’t believe how it all could have gone so very wrong. And yet, here we are again.
This week’s news that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was indicted on Federal charges [...]
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where laws end, tyranny begins. — William Pitt
Looks like the citizens of Alaska, ever fearful of having the federal teat torn from their greedy lips, have decided to return convicted felon Ted Stevens to [...]
It’s not every day that a sitting U.S. Senator goes on trial for corruption. So watching Ted Stevens get clobbered with eight counts of failure to report “gifts” is something to see. Some of us had speculated that the crappy job the Feds did in putting on the case would actually set the [...]
I have a Honda that I’ve driven for 8 years. I bought it new and maintained it properly. I was lukewarm about the car when I bought it, but I’ve come to love it for its reliability and fuel economy. I mention this because about two weeks ago, the air conditioner blew up. I took [...]
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