Stephen Colbert
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Television
Stephen Colbert Can't Handle Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout Routine
The 85-year-old justice gets absolutely notorious in the gym. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.17
* Unwilling to relinquish his 15 minutes of fame, Anthony Scaramucci goes for laughs with Stephen Colbert. [The Hollywood Reporter]
* If, and admittedly that’s a big if, Donald Trump gets impeached, Mike Pence will be ready. Just ask his personal PAC. [Huffington Post]
* Check out these tax professor rankings. [TaxProf Blog]
* Should the 1st Amendment trump the 2nd Amendment? It is first, after all. [Slate]
* Someone has had it with free speech absolutism. [Richmond.com]
* Are you ready to go off the grid? [Law and More]
* No good will come from this lawsuit. [Salon]
* This is what Trump should have said. [Dorf on Law]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.20.17
* Justice Thomas wants the Court to reconsider qualified immunity. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Stephen Colbert roasts Donald Trump’s new lawyer. [Huffington Post]
* Get your damn story straight already. [Slate]
* This is just a lawsuit waiting to happen. [Lowering the Bar]
* A deep look at the gerrymandering case, with Professor Rick Hasen. [Bloomberg Law Radio]
* Rachel’s choice. [Salon]
* Dealing with debt. [Law and More]
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Technology
Is Comedy Central Claiming It Owns The Character Stephen Colbert?
Latest Colbert legal drama is stupid but unsurprising. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.23.15
* In a story we’ve been following for years, a federal judge has put down the most notorious copyright troll in the world: “Happy Birthday To You” is now in the public domain. [LA Times]
* Former SMU Dean John Attanasio, hit with a prostitution arrest back in February, is looking at a pre-trial diversion program if he’s willing to admit the charge. [CBS DFW]
* Just weeks after his brother took over hosting duties on The Late Show, Edward Colbert has been named managing partner of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP. [Law360]
* The Republic of Guinea may have to cough up a lot of guineas in unpaid legal fees to Dentons after Judge Royce Lamberth rejected its sovereign immunity request. [Legal Times]
* Honestly, who doesn’t bring a couple dildos along when visiting a Rent-A-Center? [Courthouse News Service]
* Dewey know what horrors await law firm managers if convicted? It’s more than a little troubling that a couple million people face this fate, but we only get glossy coverage of these conditions when some millionaire lawyers might end up there. [The Am Law Daily]
* Gibson Dunn under fire for not keeping original notes of its Bridgegate interviews because defense lawyers don’t know how these new-fangled “computer” things work. [The Record]
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Supreme Court, Television
Justice Breyer vs. Stephen Colbert
Justice Breyer shows up on The Late show and ends up yelling at the host... -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.23.14
* Today is Festivus. For the rest of us. [PrawfsBlawg]
* “Law Schools Shouldn’t Despair: If History Is Any Guide, the Legal Profession Will Be in Vogue Again Before Too Long.” It’ll be a Festivus miracle. [TaxProf Blog]
* CNN lawyers and Cosby lawyers are sniping at each other and it’s getting ugly. They all need a nice Rohypnol-flavored Jell-O pudding pop to calm down. [Maynard Institute]
* Should law clerks betray their bosses? The ethical dilemma of Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link). [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Toy guns… not so much a holiday staple these days. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* Stephen Colbert’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, talks about life after the Report. [Legal Times]
* Mark your calendars: Court to decide if it’ll hear marriage equality cases on January 9. [BuzzFeed]
* If you’re looking for fashion advice and one-stop shopping, Corporette just compiled her favorite posts of 2014. [Corporette]
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Biglaw, David Boies, Education / Schools, Laurence Tribe, Litigators, Ted Olson
Biglaw's Big Dumb Teacher Tenure Lawsuits
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Books, Colbert Report, Constitutional Law, David Boies, Gay, Gay Marriage, Quote of the Day, Ted Olson, Television, Videos
A Lesson In Constitutional Law From Stephen Colbert
How would Stephen Colbert interpret the Equal Protection Clause? -
Barack Obama, Fabulosity, Food, Health Care / Medicine, Music, Parties, Pictures, Politics, Small Law Firms
How Did Two Young Lawyers Get To Have Dinner With The Obamas?
How did two small-firm lawyers from Alabama wind up having dinner with President and Mrs. Obama? -
Department of Justice, Eugene Volokh, Fast Food, Non-Sequiturs, Sex, Sex Scandals, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 05.21.13
* They are livestreaming the misconduct case against Judge Wade McCree. [Detroit Free Press] * GW Law professor John Banzhaf is calling upon the D.C. City Council to bar local broadcasters from using the term “Redskins.” Two decades after the real emergence of “political correctness,” the “Redskins” name has held out against that all-out assault almost as long as the actual Native American society did against Phil Sheridan. [Huffington Post] * People are still talking about the Yahoo!/Tumblr deal, but the most important deal for the legal profession has slid under the radar. Seamless and GrubHub are merging to make all your “3 a.m. and still haven’t had dinner at the office” dreams come true. [Wall Street Journal] * Vivia Chen of The Careerist got some flack for suggesting that women taking their husbands’ names was a regressive trend. In (tongue-in-cheek) fairness, here are the good reasons to take your husband’s name. Example: “When you’ve been indicted or convicted.” [The Careerist] * U. Chicago Law scheduled finals during Memorial Day weekend… while Chicago is closing Lake Shore Drive and cutting back on public transit. UChiLawGo responds. [UChiLawGo] * A gospel singer is suing McDonald’s because she lost her voice. Normally I’d make fun of this, but she sounds like she has a good argument. [The Inquisitr] * A review of the legal issues surrounding the DOJ/AP scandal. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Elie explains why the racist, nasty comments we receive don’t faze us at all. [Paidcontent.org] * Well this is a novel use of fundraising: Speculation that Tim Lambesis (who we covered yesterday) used crowdfunding for a new Austrian Death Machine Schwarzenegger tribute album as the down payment on a hitman to murder his wife. Maybe this new album was going to have a Total Recall theme? [Metal Sucks] * Stephen Colbert sits down with Caplin & Drysdale’s Trevor Potter to discuss the fact that Colbert’s SuperPAC has never been approved by the IRS. Video after the jump… -
Bill Clinton, Politics, Technology, Twittering
Did Stephen Colbert And President Bill Clinton Violate The CFAA?
Better get Ken Starr on this pronto! -
Books, Federal Judges, Reader Polls
An Afternoon With Judge Frederic Block, Author of 'Disrobed'
Above the Law speaks with Judge Frederic Block (E.D.N.Y.) about his new memoir and about his life and career in the law.
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Books, Quote of the Day, Television, Videos
Emily Bazelon Makes Stephen Colbert Cry
Emily Bazelon thinks Stephen Colbert just might be a bully. -
Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Television, Videos
Quote of the Day: A Latina Who Isn't Wise On Jokes
Missing: one supreme sense of humor. If found, please return to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. -
Attorney Misconduct, Bankruptcy, Copyright, Department of Justice, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Sexual Harassment
Morning Docket: 01.20.12
* Listen up, internet pirates: if your license plate says “GUILTY,” it’s almost like you’re doing the DOJ’s job for them. More on this later. [Blog of Legal Times] * Say cheese, because you’ll want to catch this first on camera. Sullivan & Cromwell is serving as lead counsel on Kodak’s bankruptcy case. [Am Law […]
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Election 2012, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Murder, New Jersey, Paul Bergrin, Politics, Prostitution, Racism
Morning Docket: 01.13.12
* What’s funnier here? The fact that Stephen Colbert is running for “president of the United States of South Carolina,” or the fact that he’s already beating Jon Huntsman in the polls? [Washington Post] * Notorious New Jersey defense attorney Paul Bergrin’s second racketeering trial has been postponed and may be delayed indefinitely, but he’s […]
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Drinking, Feminism, Gender, Litigators, Sexism, Small Law Firms
Size Matters: Can A Wet T-Shirt Contest Form The Basis Of A Niche Practice?
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Size Matters, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. After talking to so many happy small-firm lawyers, I have begun looking for my own niche to scratch. It came to me while driving in the suburbs a few weeks ago. There was a radio […] -
Biglaw, Cars, Guantanamo Bay, John Yoo, Non-Sequiturs, War on Terror
Non-Sequiturs: 04.04.11
* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo, but John Yoo is still not satisfied. He wants to capture people and hold them indefinitely without trial proof that the Obama Administration can conduct terror trials successfully. Obviously, the elegant solution is to make KSM live in Yoo’s basement until one […] -
Food, Legal Ethics, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: Sorry, Lady Soto Already Took Them All
If I was a Supreme Court Justice, I’d take all the buffet’s individually-wrapped butters. I answer to no manager! — Stephen Colbert, discussing the lack of mandatory ethical rules for justices of the Supreme Court (gavel bang: BL1Y).