Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

Today’s WSJ reports on an Energy Information Administration study detailing current federal energy subsidies. The agency reports that the total taxpayer bill was $16.6 billion in direct subsidies, tax breaks, loan guarantees and the like. That’s double in real dollars from eight years earlier, as you’d expect given all the money Congress is throwing at […]

The Legal Times takes a look at what the Justice Department might look like, and focus on, during the next Administration.

NYU Law Dean Richard Revesz has written an interesting essay for Grist arguing that environmentalists should reconsider their opposition to cost-benefit analysis of regulations. It is based upon his new book, Retaking Rationality: How Cost Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, co-authored with Michael Livermore. While CBA is largely viewed as […]

The Ohio Democratic Party officially withdrew its 2006 endorsement of Marc Dann for Attorney General. (The official resolution is reproduced here.) Though largely symbolic, this move strips Dann of the privileges of an elected official within the party, and officially changes his status from that of a Democratic officeholder, to an “Independent elected as a […]

Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s celebrate with a lyric or song. What are your favorite songs or lyrics for, about, or otherwise related to mothers and motherhood? Celebratory songs are certainly nice — and perhaps preferred — but not required.

As covered in prior posts, Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, resigned his post alleging, among other things, that military officers, including Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, were exercising undue influence over the conduct of the trials of detainees and compromising the impartiality and fairness of the military commissions. Now it appears that […]

Later this morning I’ll be appearing on a panel on “Scholarship and Blogging: The View from the Academy” at the CWRU Conference “Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus 2008.” I’ll be talking about how blogging complements, advances, and at times gets in the way of my scholarship. The sessions are being recorded, and streaming video […]

The WSJ‘s John Fund suggests there’s a little more to the story of the “disenfranchised” nuns who could not vote on Tuesday because they lacked adequate IDs. the story turns out to be much more complicated. The nuns had all been told earlier that they would need an up-to-date ID to vote. But none of […]

Scandal plagued Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is holding firm and refusing to resign. Indeed, he’s hired a political opposition-research firm to assist in communications. Still, every prominent political figure from Dann’s own political party, including the Governor, has said Dann must resign or face impeachment. If Dann had any honor, he’d resign. That much […]

The Washington Post reports that other than for a handful of nuns and some college students from out-of-state, the state’s Voter ID requirement upheld by the Supreme Court in Crawford does not appear to have created a significant obstacles to prospective voters’ ability to cast ballots. there were few other such incidents reported across the […]

Officials from his own party have threatened to impeach embattled Ohio AG Marc “Dannimal House” Dann, but Dann is hanging on (for now). While there’s no schedule for impeachment proceedings at the moment, this Saturday the state Democratic Party will vote on rescinding its 2006 endorsement of Dann for AG. Such a vote would change […]

This morning Ohio Governor Ted Strickland sent a letter to embattled Ohio AG Marc Dann asking him to resign. The letter was also signed by the four other elected Democrats holding statewide office, the Democratic leadership in the Ohio legislature, and the Chair of the Ohio Democratic Party. Yet as the Columbus Dispatch reports, Dann […]

Think Ohio AG Marc Dann is only in trouble for his affair and Animal House antics? Not so. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Dann’s office is undergoing seven investigations of one sort or another, a number that could increase. In addition to the various inquiries about the sexual-harassment complaints filed against one of Dann’s subordinates […]

In yesterday’s NYT, Adam Liptak had an interesting column about what happens when lawyer-client privilege results in wrongful convictions. A lawyer’s broad duty to keep clients’ confidences is the bedrock on which the justice system is built, [most legal experts] argue. If clients did not feel free to speak candidly, their lawyers could not represent […]

Is there anything Marc Dann can do to save his career at this point? What about a really good apology? Perhaps. There are some really good apology songs out there, but none of the ones I could think of seem to fit the situation. Here’s one anyway — a song by a great band I […]