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• Interpretive Fictions in Constitutional Law

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 609
  One issue that I’ve been thinking about lately — in part because of a presentation that I gave at a conference in October — is the use of legal fictions in constitutional interpretation.  By a fiction, I mean something that everybody knows is not true but says anyway for some jurisprudential purpose.  Many ...
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• Somnath Chatterjee speaks out against judicial activism

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said the lines demarcating the jurisdiction of different organs of the state have got blurred due to “judicial activism”, and added that none of the arms should go beyond the role assigned to it by the constitution.He said the framers of the ...
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• New York City Erases Bike Lands to Appease Hasidic Men Who Object to Seeing Women in Bike Shorts

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 638
  There is an interesting controversy in Brooklyn after the city yielded to the Hasidic community in sandblasting off bike lanes on roads. Hasidic leaders complained that they are having trouble obeying their religious law forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex with women biking around in shorts. ...
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• Richard Cheney and American Exceptionalism

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 429
       In a recent interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, former Vice-President Richard Cheney referred to President Barack Obama as "this guy who doesnt fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in," and stated that it would give "aid and comfort to the ...
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• Former FBI director to review handling of info on Fort Hood suspect

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  There are federal prisoners being held in county jails around this country on terrorism charges and who have most probably NOT killed anyone, and this Nidal Malik Hasan character is being charged with premeditated murder??  Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed Tuesday to conduct an independent ...
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• Former FBI director to review handling of info on Fort Hood suspect

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  There are federal prisoners being held in county jails around this country on terrorism charges and who have most probably NOT killed anyone, and this Nidal Malik Hasan character is being charged with premeditated murder??  Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed Tuesday to conduct an independent ...
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• Former FBI director to review handling of info on Fort Hood suspect

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  There are federal prisoners being held in county jails around this country on terrorism charges and who have most probably NOT killed anyone, and this Nidal Malik Hasan character is being charged with premeditated murder??  Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed Tuesday to conduct an independent ...
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• Checking in on Ted and Daves excellent adventure

  
  hunter of justice — Authority: 415
  A slew of pretrial memoranda have been filed in the last couple of days in Perry v. Schwarzenegger , the mega case challenging the constitutionality of Prop 8 in federal court in San Francisco.  A side issue involving whether the defendants will have to turn over to plaintiffs a series of e/mails and other ...
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• “A Stability Police Force for the United States”

  
  Cmblake6's Weblog — Authority: 138
  According to the Rand site, it is dated “2009″. So, want to bet there won’t be boo about this in the media? Now do a thought experiment: what if it had been dated “2008″. h/t: Jeremy
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• Romania in turmoil: massive election fraud charged (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 467
  AP – Many Romanians had hoped this election would lift the country out of political crisis, help it shake its reputation for corruption, and allow … Original post: (AP)"> (AP)">Romania in turmoil: massive election fraud charged (AP)
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• Judge Criminally Charged re Court Rulings in Battle for Control of Ariz. County

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 661
  A sitting Arizona judge has been charged with three major felonies, apparently at least partly in connection with his court rulings concerning a battle among local officials for control of Maricopa County and an ongoing dispute over the construction of a $340 million court tower. Although news coverage is sketchy ...
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• Billionaire Sex Offender’s Racketeering Suit: Rothstein Lawyers Lied About Me

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 661
  Just when it might have seemed that alleged wrongdoing related to the spectacular downfall of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler could not become more bizarre, a billionaire convicted sex offender has filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against two onetime partners of the South Florida law firm. Contending that they prejudiced ...
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• Obama Administration Files To Dismiss Case Against John Yoo

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 638
  John Yoo is being defended in court this month by the Administration. Not the Bush Administration. The Obama Administration. As with the lawsuits over electronic surveillance and torture, the Obama administration wants the lawsuit against Yoo dismissed and is defending the right of Justice Department officials to ...
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• State Must Pay $150 a Day to Cover Up Murder Defendant’s Tattoos, Judge Rules

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 661
  John Ditullio has a phrase tattooed on his neck that isnt considered printable by a major Florida newspaper. But when the jury sees the 23-year-old at his upcoming first-degree murder trial, those words, as well as the swastika and the barbed wire design above his collar line will be difficult to spot. Thats because ...
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• 10 Rules for Dealing With the Police

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  By Tim Lynch Our friends at Flex Your Rights have a new film that is about to be released.  It’s called 10 Rules for Dealing with Police . Trailer for the film here .  I have seen the entire film and it is an outstanding work–accurate and useful information, great screenplay, and great acting. Believe ...
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• Stephen Colbert on How the Fed “Sausage Gets Made”

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 617
  Stephen Colbert, of The Colbert Report, explains the inner workings of the Federal Reserve, and why there’s no reason Americans need “to see how that sausage gets made.” The video follows and a few choice quotes are transcribed below. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Feds Dead ...
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• Democratic Deficit or an Oligarchy?

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 609
  “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Winston Churchill I suppose the retort is that, if we have a democracy, these other forms must be really, really terrible. The U.S. seems mired, incapable of even starting to come to grips with our ...
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• Blagojevich’s 17th Amendment Autograph Says Rule of Law Is ‘FN Golden’

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 661
  Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is apparently fond of the catchphrase “f---ing golden.” Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama, was caught on tape asserting, “I’ve got this thing, and it’s f---ing golden.” At a book signing yesterday, Blagojevich was coaxed to ...
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• Caesar’s attempt to control what is God’s

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 432
  The United States Supreme Court granted review in a significant matter of student associational rights. In Christian Legal Society Chapter v. Martinez , the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals ruled against the Hastings College of Law chapter of the Christian Legal Society in a challenge to the state law school’s policy ...
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• Maltz on Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 478
  Earl M. Maltz, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University–Camden, has published Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825–1861, with the University Press of Kansas. Heres the Presss description:During America’s turbulent antebellum era, the Supreme Court decided important cases—most famously Dred ...
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