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Convictions: Slate's blog on legal issues
Monday, March 31, 2008 - Posts
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Like a fair number of other people , I'm completely captivated by Bryan Garner's videotaped interviews with Supreme Court justices on effective brief-writing. There's no shortage of insights to be gleaned from these discussions -- particularly from the Read More...
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On Monday , Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson unveiled the Bush administration's " Blueprint for Stronger Regulatory Structure ," its latest response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and severe case of influenza affecting America's financial markets. No Read More...
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DealBreaker offers possible reasons underlying disparate reactions to the Treasury Department's well-publicized new reorganization proposal. Pure conjecture? Surely. But entertaining conjecture nonetheless. Read More...
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When law firms institute family-friendly policies (flex hours, reasonable work loads), who benefits? That depends how you measure it. Mothers at these firms are neither more nor less productive than mothers at other firms, as measured by billable hours, Read More...
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The new issue of the Legal Times ($) includes several Washington law offices' explanations of their respective efforts to "go green." The firms' solutions are laudable if, often, commonplace: more recycled paper and double-sided printing, shifting communications Read More...
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In his new book, Eric Lichtblau accuses Rep. Jane Harman of having supported the NSA wiretapping program until it was revealed, and then hypocritically opposing it thereafter. In defense, Harman gives this story , which sounds plausible: 1. She and seven Read More...
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Paying due respect to John Adams, Esq. , the founder now coming to life in a teleseries, Adam rues the absence today of more than a "lucky few" capable of "deep political, philosophical, and legal argument." An HBO subscription's outside my monthly budget; Read More...
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Eric remains insistent . He wants to know what I would tell judges about how to decide cases consistent with my views of the living constitution. As described earlier, I think that living constitutionalism is a theory about the legitimacy of the constitutional Read More...
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In this bloggingheads.tv episode involving my co-bloggers Dahlia Lithwick and Richard Ford (I checked it out because I wanted to confirm that they have corporeal existences and are not merely algorithms invented by Slate's IT staff), Dahlia accuses the Read More...
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Courage, Orin ! Your question was a good one and Jack did not answer it. He draws an artificial distinction between questions of constitutional legitimacy ("Rather, living constitutionalism is primarily a theory about the legitimacy of the constitutional Read More...
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Eric Lichtblau, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book, confirms that the NSA wiretapping program was operated beneath an unprecedented and remarkable veil of secrecy. He confirms Jack Goldsmith's earlier testimony that the Deputy Attorneys General (Larry Read More...
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