Where in the World is Jan Crawford Greenburg?
One of our favorite Supreme Court reporters, the fabulous Jan Crawford Greenburg, gave a speech at Harvard Law School today. But she didn't tarry in Cambridge:
Not sure what is going on, but JCG just finished giving a speech at HLS and said that:a) She was turning around to go back to Washington immediately (this was not her original plan) and that the folks in DC had actually wanted her to turn around and catch the next shuttle back right away this morning after she landed.
b) We should be sure to watch the news tonight.
Not sure if there is anything to this, but checking Drudge and everything else there don't seem to be any legal headlines going on. So the whole thing just seemed sort of weird.
Sure, I guess a few hundred bucks is nothing to ABC News, but the whole thing just seemed sort of odd. So I thought I'd throw it your way in case there were any other rumors flying about.
Correction / Update: We've been advised that the foregoing information actually came from the remarks introducing Jan Crawford Greenburg, not from the speech of JCG herself, and was mentioned only by way of explaining why the event was being cut somewhat short (with a planned lunch cancelled).
Has anyone heard anything? Nothing over at JCG's blog, Legalities, hints at the reason for her rapid return to Washington.
Might Jan Crawford Greenburg's hasty retreat back to DC be related to the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General? Maybe Mukasey will give her an exclusive interview, in which he will declare waterboarding "not cool"?
Your speculation, informed or otherwise, is welcome in the comments.
P.S. On the subject of Mukasey and waterboarding, see this editorial cartoon.
Mukasey Mulls Waterboarding [The Illustrated Daily Scribble]
Bush Moves to Save Mukasey Nomination [New York Times]
Open Thread — The Nomination of Michael Mukasey [WSJ Law Blog]
Mukasey Confirmation Unlikely as Sen. Kennedy Joins Opposition to President's AG Nominee [Blogonaut]
(39) Comments
BOOYA
Jan Greenburg to $880K!!
probably the special session with G.W.B. re Mukasey reported 23 minutes ago by the NYT, probably elsewhere...
i love number 2!!!!!
Jan Greenburg to $880K!!
JCG doesn't need $880K. Her husband is a partner in a major firm (Latham?).
Supreme Court retirement? Souter?
stevens is retiring.
SCOTUS retirement in November? Doubtful.
Has there ever been an AG nomination that was not "embattled"?
John Stevens is dead?
Sandra Day O'Connor is kicking Alito out and retaking the seat that should still be hers?
2:49 - Usually when the AG nominee is hand-picked by a Senator of the opposition party the nomination isn't embattled.
Why, pray tell, should that seat still be hers?
I heard from a '05 clerk that the Hamburgler yoinked Scalia's Big Mac!
Thomas just announced his clerkship hirings for the next 5 years
Supreme Court Associate Justice to $250K?
2:59(1): I agree. All she ever did was muddle up the law. Ick.
oops that should have been to 2:59(2)
Jan's just plain hot! No doubt about it.
Duane "Dog" CHampman to $22K!!
Toobin called her to a street fight?
Obviously we would have heard about if JPS died, but his older brother did actually die a couple days ago. He was 90. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hed_stevensoct31,0,7641455.story
Souter retiring? One can only hope we can get rid of that disappointment.
Loyola2L to Attorney General!
it's obviously the mukasey thing . . . which I really don't care about because he's going to be in office for like 2 seconds.
“Judge Mukasey is not being treated fairly,” the president said, after taking the extraordinary step of inviting a group of reporters into the Oval Office to vent his feelings. Sitting behind his desk and leaning back in his chair, Mr. Bush said he was concerned that some people may have “lost sight of the fact that we’re at war.”
It is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for Mr. Bush to usher a small group of journalists into the Oval Office. The venue, in addition to the intensity of the president’s words, gave a strong signal that Mr. Bush thinks the nomination of Mr. Mukasey, once seen as a sure thing, is in trouble over his responses to questions about what constitutes illegal torture. A crucial Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination is set for Tuesday.
Mukasey out. Harriet Miers in.
Torture victims to 2000 volts!!!
What is this speech she just gave? Was it closed to the public (it wasn't advertised on the main website, News@Law, or the events calendar)...?
Scalia's head exploded
please don't get my hopes up.
Leiter to Chicago!
JPS ordered response briefing in the bail appeal of Illinois governor?
Apparently, Justice Thomas finally figured out who put the pubic hair on his coke can.
Is Bashman lurking here?
http://howappealing.law.com/110107.html#029477
why are we all ruling out explosive diarrhea?
3:45 - Not closed to the public. An invitation is in your harkbox. It was also all over the Langdell and Pound blackboards for a week.
A disappointment? No, one of the best judicial appointments of the 20th century. A judge's judge.