Today, President Obama will announce his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the California Supreme Court will announce its final decision in the Prop. 8 review case. When these things happen, I will be either in or departing from… Continue Reading
I hate it when I do a Westlaw search for authority to tell a judge that he has the authority to do what both he and I know perfectly well he has the authority to do — I get twenty-six… Continue Reading
First of all, read this editorial from a thirteen-year-old girl from a villiage about twenty miles from Ottawa. She’s articulate, appropriate with her emotion, and demonstrates enough maturity of understanding that others have and are entitled to a point of… Continue Reading
I had the great misfortune earlier of seeing a photograph of myself from a few weeks ago taken at a near-profile. Egad. My girth looked greater than that of Henry VIII at the height of his gouty excesses. I looked… Continue Reading
Now, most people, at least in Southern California, were well aware that the Los Angeles Lakers were in the first game of the conference finals, managing a two-point win after a bunch of hard calls. (Whiners will complain that the… Continue Reading
This company has been advertising on the Yahoo! Sports pages for a couple of weeks now. The advertisements are no more or no less annoying than any others and generally I disregard them because I’m not in the market for… Continue Reading
No blog writing yesterday because I decided to spend my computer time on the book project instead. Blogging is fun but the book feels productive, and I settled on a working title, Strict Separation. I’m trying to avoid the title-followed-by-subtitle… Continue Reading
Elections were held in India yesterday, and the incumbent Congress Party not only remained in power but, somewhat surprisingly, convincingly beat back a challenge by a Hindu nationalist party. The margin of victory is such that Prime Minister Singh has… Continue Reading
Sorry, Matt — Oprah Winfrey would not make a good Supreme Court Justice. Sure, she has compassion, and yes, she’d be a reliable pro-choice vote. Having a background in the entertainment industry, she may have some understanding of copyright and… Continue Reading