The House passed the monumental
It’s almost here . . . the Senate vote to confirm Elena Kagan as the 112th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. But, you might ask, can you really say at this poi...
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Back in October 2009 the Supreme Court accepted cert in the McDonald case, I asked in this post ...
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As many of you know, the Commonwealth's tidelands licensing statute, Chapter 91, is one of my favorites, for no other reason than that it gives me the opportunity to talk...
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The title of this post is the headline of this commentary in today's Dallas Morning News by Mark Osler. In addition to providing a useful reminder of the way the 100-1 cr...
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Lawyers sometimes have a habit of using more words than necessary. Many times this just bores the audience. Sometimes, it really, really hurts....
It’s no secret that public defender offices across the country face a host of challenges in providing legal counsel to indigent defendants. But what can and should the fe...
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As part of my draft paper on “Federal Remedies for Dysfunctional States,” I thought I’d pose the following hypothetical. Suppose that a state goes to Congress for a feder...
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Three months have now passed since the Put Illinois to Work program...