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So, back in March or so, I swapped from ATT’s standard DSL to a new service called uverse. The salesperson mislead me in important ways about what I was getting, but what I got was a big improvement, so I didn’t really complain. I got everything working and have been going along ok. [...] Folks in comments with connections to Greenwood have noted word circulating down there– some of it in initial local reports about what was happening– that, in addition to the two alleged hit man, one now dead, the other grievously injured, there was a third man, white, who escaped from the apparent attempted hit on Lee Abraham. [...] Two websites– Huffington Post, for National Reporting by David Wood, and Politico, for Editorial Cartooning by Matt Wuerker– won Pulitzer Prizes today. So did John Lewis Gaddis for his biography of George Kennan and Manning Marable (posthumously) for his biography of Malcolm X. The first prize for online journalism was awarded to ProPublica in [...] That’s the headline on a story in the New York Times, about a town in Russia that began as a labor camp over a mine. They liked to build the camps over the mine to reduce the distance from housing to work. The mine had pillars supporting the ceiling made out of salt. This [...] Anderson has an account of a Fifth Circuit argument that is stunning. Having heard a news report, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit concluded that President Obama was saying that the courts could not hold a statute unconstitutional and demanded a Justice Department lawyer answer for this. Not satisfied when the lawyer cited [...] This 1880s advertising poster has been circulating the internet; Anderson saw it on Lawyers, Guns, and Money. It’s also in the Library of Congress collection. While I’d love to have one, I kind of doubt it’s still available for 5 one cent stamps (somewhere on the poster it makes that offer). Anderson also [...] Here are my notes, with minimal comment, about three of the witnesses who testified today. Trent Lott Direct Exam Dickie Scruggs is not a gatekeeper for judicial nominations. Lott and Cochran have a clear relationship about judicial nominations. Scruggs never had influence on Lott’s selection of judges. Lott and Scruggs had different backgrounds and perspective. He was not someone I consulted. He knew his weighing in might have reverse effect, based on philosophy and what I looked for. Lott described what Lott looked for. In DeLaughter’s instance, letters and faxes would come in and be filed. He’s not sure how much. He was aware he received a letter from DeLaughter, but wasn’t aware of it, then later got another letter after Lott talked to DeLaughter. John Corlew, a lawyer friend of Lott’s faxed DeLaughter’s resume to Senator Lott. Corlew is the kind of person Lott would consult about judges. Lott did not depend on Scruggs for recommendations for federal judges. Ex. 17 is a 3/10 letter from DeLaughter to Lott. Ex. 18 is a 3/30 letter from DeLaughter. Lott doesn’t recall the 3/10 letter; it may have gone to the Jackson office. Continue reading Scruggs II hearing, first day testimony (part one of two) Immanuel Velikovsky was a writer most famous for the book Worlds in Collision, in which he theorized that ancient myths and the Bible described actual natural disasters provoked when Mars and Venus left their orbits and passed near Earth. He was a neighbor and friend of the physicist Freeman Dyson, and asked Dyson for [...] … when Scalia’s dissent (joined only by Thomas) starts out: ”Let me get this straight:” That’s in this morning’s Martinez v. Ryan. And the Ninth Circuit continues to be unable to buy a break– they got reversed this time for refusing a habeas petitioner relief. It gets pretty arcane as to why. Continue reading You know the case turned out well… |
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