Morning Docket 01.07.09
* Yesterday’s Lawyer of the Day was snubbed by the Senate. But Democrats may reconsider if Roland Burris agrees not to compete for the seat in 2010. [Washington Post]
* …UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says they certainly should. [Los Angeles Times]
* Adam Liptak profiles Obama’s solicitor general nominee Elena Kagan. She may not have revealed her views on unilateral executive power, but she did manage to bring harmony to the “notoriously dysfunctional Harvard Law School.” [New York Times]
* More problems for U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes. More sex crime charges! [Houston Chronicle]
* Judiciary Committee Republican Sen. Arlen Specter is going to the mat over the AG nomination of Eric Holder. He questions his character and his ability “to say no instead of to say yes.” [New York Times]
* Nationwide Government Layoff Watch: The Arizona Attorney General’s Office says goodbye to 20 people. [Phoenix Business Journal]
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First, or some shit.
Hillary Clinton is a Jew. Proof here http://judicial-inc.biz/index.6qsaZ1.jpg
Erwin Chemerinsky was snubbed for under deputy assistant solicitor general.
Erwin Chemerinsky is not my hero.
i can't believe UC Irvine is starting a law school
"Democrats may reconsider if Roland Burris agrees not to compete for the seat in 2010."
This is just like when Illinois Democrats reconsidered holding a special election if Rod Blagojevich agreed not to appoint anyone. Hilariously toothless.
6 is right. The politics of appeasement. Wait until Obama starts up with that shit; Bush won't look so bad then.
As a student going to UC-Irvine Law, all I can say is...
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN!
Plaxico Burris has no business being in the U.S. Senate with the legal cloud hanging over his head.
Line of day: Judge Kent describing his relationship with the accuser as "enthusiastically consensual."
"Democrats may reconsider if Roland Burris agrees not to compete for the seat in 2010."
Why is Elie not making posts condemning the real reason why Democrats don't want Burris in the Senate, rather than the fact that Burris was appointed by a corrupt governer?
Oh wait....
(1) He is a Democrat
(2) He has a liberal adgenda
(3) He has his own mausoleum
(4) He was endorsed by Jesse Jackson
(5) He is black
...I think answered my own question
11, what does being "appointed by a corrupt governor" have anything to do with the Constitution?
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Thanks.
yeah, but I kinda liked his mausoleum.
yeah, but I kinda liked his mausoleum.
12,
The Senate can judge whether someone was validly elected (or in this case, appointed). Just as they wouldn't have to seat someone who was intimidating voters, they don't have to seat someone potentially selected through bribery.
And being the sole judge of that issue, they don't need a heavy burden of proof.
15, what IS the burden if proof? Considering Blago has not been convicted of anything . . .
15, nice parenthetical there about appointments... too bad James Madison left that part out. Whoops.
"they don't have to seat someone potentially selected through bribery. "
potentially" is such a great term that it can be used for every appointment. Given that Blago hasn't even been indicted, it's a hard sell.
hahaha woman are objects
The Senate shouldn't punish Burris for the misdeeds of his superiors.
20, when you say "his superiors," are you talking about the white people?
This is a sad case of Blaxploitation!
The news this morning is that the Dems are going to let him in as the Senator. What kind of spineless bullshit is that? What they hell did they make a huge scene of turning him away yesterday for if they were going to back off of it the very next day? Seriously... all the power the Democrats have and we have this snivelling troll Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader. Obama had better be the real deal, cause Reid and the rest of the gutless clowns in the Senate sure aren't.
Burris can be desired by the Senate all they want. Until the Illinois Sec. of State certifies Burris, he cannot be a senator. Period.
"Until the Illinois Sec. of State certifies Burris, he cannot be a senator. Period."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-senate-burris-whi,0,7156280.story
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White says he's being unfairly blamed by members of the U.S. Senate for not seating Roland Burris.
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But White says Burris could have been seated without his signature, which he calls "mostly ceremonial."
How about this guy for lawyer of the day:
"An attorney wound up in court on the wrong side of the law after he clocked his wife in their Upper West Side apartment, police sources said yesterday.
James Hunt, 46, allegedly punched his wife, also 46, as she awoke in their apartment on West 72nd Street near West End Avenue at around 11:20 a.m. Sunday.
Police responded to a 911 call and found the wife crying on a seventh-floor staircase. She was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital. Hunt was charged with assault and released without bail at his arraignment."
[NY Post 1/7/2009]