The fact that nobody had ever heard of Soleimani really calls into question whether it was worth maybe starting a war with Iran to kill him.
How does he even find the time to get his WOD in?
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* Iranian law students participating in an international moot court competition "surprised" over the warm reception they've gotten in the United States. [Al-Monitor] * Yup, Justice Gorsuch is going to be just fine on the Court. [New York Times] * The newest justice's first test. [Slate] * Look at this district attorney race to get a sense of the anti-Trump resistance. [Salon] * Are lawyers branding themselves all wrong? [Law and More] * Don't call it a comeback. [Politico] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg
Please welcome conservative columnist Kayleigh McEnany back to the pages of Above the Law!
Here are four realities that soon-to-be President Donald Trump will need to come to terms with.
* Five years later, and one of them enrolled at Yale Law, the kids of Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, plan to raise their own children the same way. [Today] * Rome self-censors for a state visit from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. How, exactly, was this a good idea? [Popehat] * Should the ABA change accreditation standards to prevent students with little chance of actually passing the bar examination from attending law school in the first place? [TaxProf Blog] * Missouri paid its executioners $250,000 in cash. That doesn't seem shady AT ALL. [BuzzFeed] * The whole Ammon Bundy debacle is teaching people damn the consequences. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * If you need to scale a courthouse in order to get a selfie with lady liberty, just don't do it, you could wind up in jail. [KWTX] * What does Rudy Giuliani really think about Preet Bharara? Plus why he loves being a lawyer. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=9yGt3MF4Sn4
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Another week, another unconstitutional action by President Obama -- and this week's episode features his administration’s favorite state sponsor of terrorism, Iran.
* That time when an embarrassing photo from law school came back to haunt MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. [NBC Sports] * This is one way to get people interested in tax law -- put a princess on trial. [Wall Street Journal] * This may be the most innocuous set of scandal pictures you will ever see, but the Iranian national soccer team's goalie still got arrested over them. [Screamer] * Why won't America, land of immigrants, let an immigrant be president? [Vox] * Burn! You may have already signed away your right! The real truth behind credit card agreements. [My Bank Tracker] * Yeah... you really should read those homeowners association rules. [Legal Juice]
* Doesn't the increasingly bloated Republican presidential primary field seem like a plot from Veep rather than real life? Well, take a break from the world's insanity and break down the election law quandary from the season finale of the hit show. [Law.com] * Spoiler alert: the performance art defense doesn't work. [Dealbreaker] * Good news for New York Bar Exam takers -- don't stress about grabbing lunch on the day of the exam. [Custom Gourmet] * This... is not going to end well. China arrested more than 100 human rights lawyers for inciting trouble. [Christian Science Monitor] * I think it's entirely possible Harper Lee never intended to publish "Go Set A Watchman" and that makes me hesitant to read the novel, but Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy's call to "abandon the immature sentimentality ingrained by middle school lessons about the nobility of the white savior" has me itching to buy the book. [New York Times] * Speaking of the incredibly sketchy circumstances under which Harper Lee's novel was published, maybe it's time to blame the lawyer? [New Republic] * Remember that viral video about cat-calling on NYC streets from last year? Yeah, the woman featured is suing the makers of the video (along with Google, YouTube, and TGI Fridays). Only problem? She got nothing in writing. [Slate] * I sure hope no attorneys were sucked into this M&A fraud. [Forbes] * OIL AND HEAVY WATER FOR EVERYBODY -- a take on the Iran deal. [Breaking Energy]
An Arkansas Republican tries to blame sons for the sins of their fathers...
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Anyone voting for Romney in order see the Ahmadinejad trial will be sorely disappointed.
For a long time, I have been a staunch advocate of putting passwords on all electronic devices — laptops, phones, tablets, etc. There’s no reason to leave your private life or sensitive business data accessible to any schmo who might have access to your phone, just because you’re too lazy to spend three seconds typing […]