Consumer prices rose slightly more than expected in February, assuaging deflationary fears and providing yet another piece of evidence that the recovery has begun.

Third!

under what standard is David Hamilton moderate? He clerked for a liberal judge and is a former board member for the Indiana ACLU.

Does anybody claim the ACLU is moderate?

Third!

2, Latham really should have waited to see if the market improved before Lathaming their first years.

You could fit 7 Texas-sized, 3500 square foot wives in that excess Clifford Chance space.

4, I once spoke to a guy who has a cousin working for rush limbaugh's nephew's best friend. Does that make me a conservative?

Liza, Liza skies are gray. But when you smile at me all the clouds'll roll away

Too bad that people have been raised with an ignorant view of the ACLU - while I don't always agree with them, they are among the most principled groups out there - they'll take up anybody's cause, from illegal immigrants to klansman. May Cthulu's blessings be upon them.

Weil Gotshal is representing AIG in the bonus investigations--yet another reason they should win this year's ATL March Madness tourney!

Was yesterday the first day we've had without layoff news? Or does the M&F story count against such a determination?

10,
This is not true. When was the last time that the ACLU took a case of an individual seeking religous freedom? They decided what parts of the First Amendment they like, they interpreted the First Amendment for themselves and represent the cases they like. The ACLU is a liberal machine. And very few people that are not the die hards of liberal thinking could ever get as high in the organization as David Hamilton did. I don't doubt he's qualified to be on the 7th Circuit and if I were a Senator I probably wouldn't oppose him. Call a spade a spade. He's not moderate. He's a liberal judge. The term moderate is relative. Relative to the raging communism that is advocated by this blog's writers, Brennan, Blackmun and Marshall are right wing nuts.

Oh and by the way Paul Hastings got hit with a $4.5 million dollars in Rule 11 Sanctions.

Probably not that newsworthy:

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202429081570

Amen #4, Hamilton isn't a moderate under any reasonable standard. As for the ACLU, whoever thinks they are a "principled" organization is either stuck in the 1970s , a 14K ignoramous or a liar. The ACLU is reflexively left wing and will not represent right-wing groups anymore. Don't believe me? Go take a look at their own reports and look at who they are representing these days.

if there was any justice in the world, when the next inevitable AQ attack is launched against the United States, all of the damage and casualties would be visited on the ACLU and/or the editorial board of the NY Times.

Go Hamilton and go Haverford!!

The ACLU is moderate

cool bird!

I don't know about liberal vs. moderate, but Hamilton definitely deserves the ABA's "not qualified" rating that he had when he was appointed by Clinton in 1994. I have a case pending before him now, and his adverse rulings have (thankfully) been overturned by the CAFC again and again. He does not feel constrained by binding precedent. At least I get to deliver the good news to my client -- we'll get a different judge.

I don't know about liberal vs. moderate, but Hamilton definitely deserves the ABA's "not qualified" rating that he had when he was appointed by Clinton in 1994. I have a case pending before him now, and his adverse rulings have (thankfully) been overturned by the CAFC again and again. He does not feel constrained by binding precedent. At least I get to deliver the good news to my client -- we'll get a different judge.

13 - 10 here.

You are rather demonstrably wrong. The ACLU regularly takes on free exercise of religion cases.

Via the miracle of google, I discovered this within the span of a few seconds.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ACLU+free+exercise

Onward, Christian soldier, to their website!

:)

Leaving the ACLU to the side, this guy is a freaking moonbat:

He was a fundraiser for ACORN and vice president for litigation at the Indiana ACLU, where he also was a board member, before becoming a judge. There's the time (a mere seven years) he held up an abortion waiting period and was firmly rapped by the Circuit he is nominated to join:

For seven years Indiana has been prevented from enforcing a statute materially identical to a law held valid by the Supreme Court in Casey, by this court in Karlin, and by the fifth circuit in Barnes. No court anywhere in the country (other than one district judge in Indiana [i.e., Hamilton]) has held any similar law invalid in the years since Casey. Although Salerno does not foreclose all pre-enforcement challenges to abortion laws, it is an abuse of discretion for a district judge to issue a pre-enforcement injunction while the effects of the law (and reasons for those effects) are open to debate.

And then there's the time he ruled that Indiana legislators could not begin their sessions with an "overtly Christian" prayer. This is part of an ongoing Lefty assault on the idea that standing requires more than a speculative injury. He was, again, overruled by the Seventh Circuit (PDF) because the people in whose name the American Civil Liberties Union had brought the suit lacked standing. They couldn't show that they had been injured by the praying.

Other infamous rulings now coming to light include a recent decision that police use of drug-sniffing dogs outside of a residence without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation. He declared unconstitutional (under the U.S. constitution) an Indiana constitutional amendment requiring the registration of convicted sex offenders.

This is not a moderate judge. If he joins the Seventh Circuit we can expect more of the same radical rulings on constitutional issues like standing, abortion, and Christianity he made as a district court judge.

Eliza -- spell Ginsburg correctly

Wow, if the wingnuts think he's an extremist, then he is probably a moderate. That's why they lost the country.

24 = dingbat :)

I'd say enjoy paying your 70% Obama taxes, but you're probably on welfare already!

25: Enjoy obscurity and life in Memphis.

26: There is traffic somewhere that needs blocking. Get to it.