The Kavanaugh Hearings
Here’s a NYT article from 1932 about Justice Felix Frankfurter and judicial temperament. 1932 NYT Frankfurter
The Cuckoo Bird
Americans are all cuckoos because we make our homes in the nests of other birds. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes My people came to America in a very long and winding way from the Avesnes region of France. But it goes back further than the ancestors my Grandmother marked down in the family tree (who I’ll […]
September 21, 2018
Abstract Article: One of the main problems with traditional legal education is that students don’t learn knowledge in a way that transfers easily to law practice.
Where Are You From?
I can give you that historical bird’s eye view. But I cannot readily explain the mystery of Leonard Side’s inheritance. Most of us know the parents and grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever; we go back all of us to the very beginning; in our blood and bone and brain […]
Approaching Storm
Here ( Hurricane Irma) is a post from almost exactly this day last year as a Storm was approaching. Our thoughts are with our neighbors to the north as they do the same today.
9/11 & Feedback
In our weekly blog post for 9/11, we look back to an earlier post called Feedback
9/11
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings But the heart has it’s seasons, its evenings and songs of its own Grateful Dead, Eyes Of The […]
September 5, 2018
Kavanaugh: A Quick Guide Focusing on National Security
September 3, 2018
ABA: No Justice While Millions Lack Court Access
Integrity
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson The President’s lawyer says that “Truth isn’t truth” and any effort to question his client under oath is a “perjury trap”: the inevitable result of flouting all recognized rules in a scorched-earth, “win at any cost”, “art of […]