R. Ted Cruz
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R. Ted Cruz, Social Media
When Did We Become A Country? The (Not So) Great Chaplin/Cruz Debate
Traditional debate is becoming an increasingly lost art. The loss will eventually destroy us, if it hasn’t already. -
Federal Judges, Politics
Circuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: A Nationwide Round-Up
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Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Update: Trump Has Started Interviewing SCOTUS Candidates
Which prominent conservative judge just met with President-elect Donald Trump?
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Books, Law Schools
Standard Of Review: 'The Ugly' Is A Challenging Read But An Effective Law School Satire
If you are looking for insightful law school satire, consider reading The Ugly. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.11.16
* Professor Victor Williams of the Catholic University of America School of Law, who’s been called the “Republican Lawrence Lessig” by some, is running a write-in campaign for president with the sole intent of eliminating Ted Cruz as a candidate due to his birth in Canada. He alleges that the Texas senator committed ballot access fraud by falsely swearing that he was a natural born citizen. Thanks to Williams’s allegations, a primary disqualification hearing is being held today in New Jersey. [PR Newswire]
* Does SCOTUS have a diversity problem? One justice thinks so. In the wake of President Obama calling attention to his nominee’s whiteness, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted the Court’s homogeneity, saying that SCOTUS is currently at a “disadvantage from having [five] Catholics, three Jews, [and] everyone from an Ivy League school.” [TIME]
* Here’s an interesting theory: According to Patterson Belknap senior partner Gregory Diskant, because the Senate has failed to give President Obama its advice and consent with regard to his Supreme Court nominee, it can be said the Senate waived its rights, leaving Obama free to appoint Judge Garland to the high court. [Washington Post]
* “There is something seductively subversive about having a name that has a secondary street meaning, which, by the way, is not necessarily a bad thing to think of your lawyers as being.” MoFo — a law firm that’s perhaps known as Morrison & Foerster in more conservative circles — has fully embraced its sexy “street name.” [Big Law Business]
* Prosecutors say former House speaker and disgraced Dickstein Shapiro partner Dennis Hastert paid $3.5M to silence a boy he sexually abused, and molested at least four more children. Because the statutes of limitations have long since run on those crimes, he’ll likely serve only six months for banking crimes related to his hush-money payoffs. [AP]
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Politics, Wall Street
Ted Cruz Goes Way Out Of His Way To Take Debate Potshot At Wall Street
Old Meltyface doesn't need a logical transition moment to cravenly bash the financial sector. -
R. Ted Cruz, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Ted Cruz Should Be A Supreme Court Nominee Instead Of A Presidential Candidate
He'd be the perfect conservative stand-in for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. -
Constitutional Law, Politics, R. Ted Cruz
Birthers Beware: Why Court Challenges To Ted Cruz’s Citizenship Can't Win
They can't win in federal court because they shouldn't even be heard in federal court, according to columnist Tamara Tabo. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.19.16
* The New York Times editorial board believes SCOTUS justices “already have all the evidence they need to join the rest of the civilized world and end the death penalty once and for all” — and they may get the chance to do so this Term (but won’t). [New York Times]
* A Texas lawyer has filed the first “birther” lawsuit against Republican candidate Ted Cruz, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Canadian-born senator isn’t eligible to run for president. The filing is a pretty entertaining read in that it’s completely insane. [KHOU 11 News]
* Just when ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf chair Steven Davis thought his legal troubles were over, Citibank swooped in to slap him with a suit seeking repayment of a $400,000 loan for his capital contribution to the failed firm. [New York Law Journal via ABA Journal]
* The U.S. Copyright Office has formed an academic partnership with George Mason University School of Law. We bet students and law school administrators alike are probably hoping it’ll turn into an employment partnership as well. [IP Watchdog]
* Lower-ranked law schools ought to thank their lucky stars that U.S. News “ranking competition” exists, because if not for fear they’d sink in the rankings, higher-ranked schools would’ve enrolled students typically bound for unranked schools. [Forbes]
* Not only has Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s first bid to get a new trial been rejected, but in what’s been called a “symbolic gesture,” the convicted Boston Marathon bomber has now been ordered to pay more than $101 million in restitution to his victims. [Boston Globe]
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Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
A New Trend Among Supreme Court Clerks?
Why are so many former SCOTUS clerks flocking to Capitol Hill? -
Constitutional Law, R. Ted Cruz, Ted Olson
Legal Luminary Wonders If Ted Cruz Learned A Single Thing At Harvard Law
Did this presidential candidate skip his Constitutional Law classes? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.23.15
* Congratulations to Loretta Lynch, who later today should be confirmed as the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. [CNN]
* And congrats to baseball star Barry Bonds, whose obstruction of justice conviction just got overturned by the Ninth Circuit. [How Appealing]
* Dewey turned DLA Piper partner John Altorelli, alleged former paramour of Russian spy Anna Chapman, is back in the news — JP Morgan Chase accuses him of lying about his assets in his pending personal bankruptcy case. [American Lawyer]
* The many debaters-turned-lawyers out there might enjoy this look at the college debate career of presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. [New York Times]
* A satirical “killing Jews is his jihad” ad can’t be kept out of New York mass transit, per Judge John Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.). [ABA Journal]
* Retired General David Petraeus is expected to plead guilty later today to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling
Paula Broadwellclassified materials. [Washington Post]* U.S. Supreme Court justices are getting grumpier, according to interesting research discussed by Paul Barrett. [Bloomberg View via How Appealing]
* With the U.S. Supreme Court about to decide the constitutionality of gay-marriage bans, what’s next for opponents of marriage equality? [New York Times]
* Standing up for “religious freedom” bills, for one thing — which is what Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is doing, telling corporations that plan to “bully[]” his state, “Save your breath.”
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9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Blogging, Celebrities, Free Speech, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Videos
Non-Sequiturs: 07.30.14
* Court needed a Chinese language interpreter. Rather than find a professional legal interpreter, the judge just told the lawyer to head down to the local Chinese restaurant and grab somebody. [Legal Cheek] * News from former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s trial. As one tipster summed up the story: “Hon, I think I dropped my keys under that bus. Would you take a look?” [Slate] * Everyone concedes Ted Cruz is smart. Why exactly? [Salon] * A follow-up from a previous story: Connolly, Geaney, Ablitt & Willard shuts down after the foreclosure market that made them turned on them. [Mass Lawyers Weekly (sub. req.)] * Interesting look at the volume of patent cases throughout history. Check out the troll phenomenon with charts! [Patently-O] * More folks wasting time complaining about blog posts. [South Florida Lawyers] * Clint Eastwood talks with Chief Judge Kozinski and Judge Fisher at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. These days it’s exciting whenever Clint isn’t talking to an empty chair. Video embedded below… [YouTube]
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Department of Justice, Email Scandals, Eric Holder, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Tax Law
Celebrate July 4th Like Our Founding Fathers Intended: By Questioning The Government
Wouldn't it be great if the government didn’t spoliate -- er, “recycle” -- any more evidence in the investigation of the IRS? -
Constitutional Law, D.C. Circuit, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
And Boom Goes The (Nuclear) Dynamite: Previewing The Derptastic Sound Bytes You're About To Hear
Senator Harry Reid finally invokes the so-called "nuclear option" to get President Obama's nominees on the D.C. Circuit. Here comes the combative spin. -
9th Circuit, Biglaw, Crime, Insider Trading, Job Searches, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Patents, R. Ted Cruz, Sports, Technology, Trials
Morning Docket: 11.11.13
* After months of gains, the legal industry lost 900 jobs in October, just as some of the big state bar exam results came out. We imagine the folks who rallied for the 10-months-after-graduation employment statistic are as pleased as punch. [Am Law Daily]
* “How do we find a new inventory of high net worth clients?” The answer for Kelly Drye was really quite simple: it seems that pro athletes are willing to pay just about anything to keep themselves from going bankrupt. [Capital Business / Washington Post]
* “I don’t know why it’s better to use a bigger firm.” When it comes to the latest law firm mega-mergers, some say that it’s not the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* It’s like Groundhog Day for these Biglaw attorneys: Apple and Samsung are preparing for the “patent trial of the century,” part deux, and both MoFo and Quinn Emanuel have enlisted new lineups. [The Recorder]
* SAC Capital’s general counsel is okay, “[a]ll things considered.” His painful appendectomy is nothing compared to the $1.2 billion his hedge fund has to pay the government. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Ted Cruz might be an “AASS,” but he’s done at least one awesome thing in his life. He once drank so much Everclear that he completely ruined a play put on by the Harvard Law drama society. [Boston Globe]
* The Z-list actress who sued IMDb for revealing her age filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit because hey, some of those judges are pretty old. Maybe they’ll sympathize. [Hollywood, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter]
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Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Rudeness
Harvard Law Should Start Giving Out The 'Ted Cruz Award' To The Most Annoying Student
HLS should crown its biggest jerk. -
Crime, Kirsten Gillibrand, Military / Military Law, R. Ted Cruz, Rape, Violence, Women's Issues
Nothing Is Gained By Minimizing Rape -- A Response
What is gained by saying that rape in the military is on par with rape in the civilian world? -
Crime, Kirsten Gillibrand, Military / Military Law, R. Ted Cruz, Rape, Violence, Women's Issues
Marine Barracks or College Dorm: Senate Bill Raises False Alarm Over Where Women Are Most Likely to Be Raped
When Congress sends the message that a woman would be safer from rape if she went to the average university than if she served her country in our armed forces, it maligns the military and gives women a false fear. -
Law Professors, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Ridiculousness, Texas
Ted Cruz Doubles Down On Idiotic, Incorrect Statement About Harvard Law
Ted Cruz is sticking to his guns about Commies at Harvard Law.