Archive | July, 2004

Cool.

Today’s Washington Post has a nice piece on my law school’s “Clinic for Legal Assistance to Service Members.” Acting Dean Dan Polsby: It’s not exactly a secret that the culture of higher education in America is anti-military. We’re a little different in the law school. We’re near the Pentagon, with a lot of military and […]

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. . . . This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they […]

Via Wally Olson at PointofLaw.com: What does it take to convict an expert witness of perjury? Well, according to the Ninth Circuit (over dissents from O’Scannlain and four others), ruling last week, it’s not enough to catch the expert passing himself off in testimony as a specialist in orthopedic surgery when his actual residency was […]

Also from his First Inaugural Address; agree or disagree — and in practice our legal and political system has generally rejected Lincoln’s view — it’s eloquent and thought-provoking (paragraph break added): I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny […]