George Will

* Just because you showed up drunk for jury duty, it doesn’t mean you should have to go to jail for it — at least according to the Florida Supreme Court. [Daily Business Review]

* George Will on why Republicans may wind up wishing they’d confirmed Chief Judge Merrick Garland when they had the chance. [Washington Post]

* Amal Clooney, speaking at a government communications summit in the United Arab Emirates, urges governments to be vocal, consistent, principled, expedient, and transparent when dealing with human rights issues. [Yahoo News]

* High academic achievement now linked to… failure in the workplace? Well, that’s simultaneously depressing and comforting. [Law and More]

* A former U.S. State Department employee faces up to 8 years in jail for a massive phishing scheme aimed at getting young women to share nude photos. [CS Monitor]

* Check out The Merrick Garland Project by NYU Law Review. It’s a curation of select opinions written by Chief Judge Garland, organized by topic. [The Merrick Garland Project]

* The obstructed Supreme Court nomination process gets a children’s book treatment. [Slate]

What they do for fun tells you a lot about what's broken in America.

* Anthony Weiner is a proud papa. Let me click on this picture he sent the media of his new… oh COME ON Congressman, grow up! [New York Post] * I like George Will a lot better when he’s talking about what Newt Gingrinch wants to do for the courts as opposed to what George […]

If you want to help, help. But don't use "helping" as an excuse to further some ridiculous personal agenda. You'll just look like an idiot. You'll just look like George Will prancing around the pages of the Washington Post trying to act like he is against affirmative action because he suddenly wants the Supreme Court to step up to the plate and "help" black people....