Category: Legal Reform

Never Hire King & Spalding

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Apparently, if you hire King and Spalding to do legal work, the law firm will dump you if your case turns out to be controversial. Even if the firm knew that going in. And your case has to do with ...
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Supreme Court’s New Case on Public Campaign Financing Reported in the National Center’s Shattered Dreams Book Back in 2007

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On March 28, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue of the public financing of political campaigns for the first time since 1976 when it heard arguments for and against Arizona’s Clean Elections Act. It’s a regulatory problem that the National ...
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A Dairyland Dust-Up

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Wisconsin is now the hub for kangaroo courts; and Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi isSource: istockphoto presiding. On Tuesday, Judge Sumi issued a second order (pdf) halting the implementation of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill.  Then on ...
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What About Theft?

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The top-of-the-hour 3 pm eastern news on the ABC radio network featured a story about a cross being stolen from a church and then being found, burning, outside a girl's window. The story notes that the FBI has gotten involved, ...
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GOP Leaders ask Supreme Court to Dismiss “Climate Change” Case

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In an amicus brief filed Monday (pdf), three GOP lawmakers asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit that Source: istockphoto seeks to hold a few American utility companies responsible for contributing to alleged global climate change. In their brief, House ...
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Threat of Mexican Drug Violence Likely to Lead to Use of U.S. Troops Along Southern Border, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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There is a rising belief that Mexico is becoming a new drug war-era Columbia, and that our federal government should deploy the military along our southern border right now. Experts believe conditions exist inside Mexico that mirror those found in ...
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Judge Orders Law Firms to Diversify

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I always thought justice was blind.  Apparently one federal judge saw too many white male lawyers working on a case and had to put a stop to it.   Source: istockphoto.com (Note: This is not a picture of Judge Baer.) On ...
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EEOC Warns Employers: If You Don’t Want to Hire Felons, You Need a Good Reason

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Washington, DC - The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is warning employers that it is illegal to use a prospective employee's past conviction records, even for serious felonies, as an "absolute measure" as to whether they should be hired ...
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Project 21’s Letter to Obama Cited in Washington Times Editorial

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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie sent a second letter to President Barack Obama asking for the appointment of a special prosecutor to quickly and impartially investigate allegations of political interference in the Justice Department’s voting rights case against member of ...
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Supreme Court Throws Christian Students to the Lions

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United States Supreme Court BuildingIt seems Mary Kay Kane, former Dean of Hastings College of Law, and her administration opposed the views held by the Christian Legal Society on their campus, so they threw ‘em out. Last week, while the ...
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