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I believe it is using the knowledge that God gave us, to help others.<quoted text>Unlike many of you, I do not have the spare time to dig through and catch all posts, but yes, saving a person from death at any time is playing god, it is opposing the will of nature or whatever god may be. It is unfair to say that only one group can play god and not the other.
So one group is doctors that can help the quality of life for others. Who is the other group? Abortionists that end lives? I hope you can draw that distinction as it is really easy for me to do so.


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The flip side of fame is often fear. Take the fate of Jonathan Gruber. In 2006 president Obama told an audience that he had "stolen ideas liberally" from Gruber, "one of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles". Gruber once had multiple contracts worth millions to supply economic modeling to the president's signature healthcare program. He was riding high.
Then Rich Weinstein an investment adviser from Philadelphia found a series of videos taken at small forums in which Gruber confided to audiences the less than flattering inside dope on Obamacare. It portrayed an administration laughing at ignorant voters for believing in the promises of the program. After the videos were publicized Gruber's world began to fall apart.
First Gruber's $400,000 a year contract was terminated by Vermont. "Embattled former ObamaCare adviser Jonathan Gruber has been booted from his healthcare consulting gig in Vermont, according to reports on Wednesday. Gruber had a $400,000 contract with the state, where he was charged with helping to create a single-payer system. " Then Vermont put an auditor on all his old paperwork and alleged that he had padded his billing.
The Vermont audit, which cites Gruber's "inconsistencies and questionable billing practices," also faults state officials for failing to exercise sufficient oversight over the MIT economist's invoices. The audit has been referred to Vermont's Democratic attorney general, William Sorrell, who reportedly said it raises "serious questions."…
"The evidence suggests that Dr. Gruber overstated the hours worked by the RA and that the Agency of the Administration ignored the obvious signs that something was amiss," Hoffer wrote.
Now comes news Massachusetts has fired Gruber from the Bay State's Obamacare exchange. The word is out on Gruber. "You'll never work in this town again." It's the oldest of punishments. A fall from grace can be as brief as a rise to the top was long. Eartha Kitt was blacklisted from working in America by Lyndon Johnson after she was asked her opinion about the war in Vietnam at a White House luncheon and Kitt said she was against it. The doors to high society were flung open to Truman Capote and in consequence he was a regular guest on talk shows until he made the mistake of writing about the unflattering side of cultural elite. And then the doors were shut in his face.
Mother Jones describes the implicit quid pro quo of being a high roller. Never forget who you are working for. Mother Jones asks: "Why Is Big Pharma Financing a Conservative Group Trying to Destroy Obamacare" when they've been paid off?
During the contentious battle to pass the Affordable Care Act, the pharmaceutical industry was a crucial partner of President Barack Obama. Big Pharma sank $150 million into an ad blitz promoting the Obamacare bill and spent millions lobbying for its passage. Backing health care reform was a no-brainer for the drug manufacturers; they stood to reap billions in revenues as a result of expanded health care coverage. Yet all of this makes one of Big Pharma's alliances highly curious: It has bankrolled the libertarian think tank trying to demolish Obamacare.
The Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute has been the driving force behind two high-profile anti-Obamacare lawsuits, including King v. Burwell, which will be heard by the Supreme Court in early March. …
This was the deal Big Pharma cut during the legislative battle over Obamacare: The pharmaceutical companies agreed to support the law and accept about $80 billion in cost-cutting measures over the next decade, and the White House granted the industry lucrative concessions to protect its profit margins. These industry-favoring measures include provisions preventing the government from negotiating lower drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid and blocking Americans from importing cheaper prescription drugs from abroad. Those concessions were costly to taxpayers and consumers, but they were part of the grand bargain hammered out between the White House and Big Pharma. This accord ensured the industry would use its formidable lobbying clout to pass Obamacare—not destroy it.
And you thought Obamacare was about curing the sick?
If you really want to understand what holds the liberal establishment together the one-word answer is fear. Fear among the rich has a different flavor from fear among the poor. The poor are often so used to deprivation and insecurity that it holds no special terrors for them. When you're already a bum and a good day is when you can eat the whole box of macaroni and cheese; when you've been unemployed for longer than you can remember, then "you'll never work in this town again" can be answered by "so what?"
High flyers on the other hand, have an awful long way to fall. Nobody wants to finish up like the fictional Stanton Carlisle, who descends from the heights of the entertainment industry, fleeing police trouble and winds up working in a carnival freak show, eating live chickens for a living. And therefore media will be paying very close attention to the fate of Jonathan Gruber, formerly "one of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles". If there's one thing you don't want, it's to wind up like Gruber.
The chains of patronage are hard to avoid in exalted circles. According to Elias Groll writing in Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani is a consultant for Qatar. That's nothing. The Clintons have collected over two billion dollars from foreign governments and lobby groups through their foundation.
she, her husband and their daughter, Chelsea, built a global foundation that has attracted $2 billion in contributions, including many from foreign governments and business entities.
Once Hillary Clinton left office, the newly renamed Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation resumed fundraising from foreign governments that had been off-limits during her government service.
Donations in the past two years have come from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia and Germany. The foreign gifts — disclosed voluntarily on the Clinton Foundation website — have led to calls from activists and ethics watchdogs for the foundation to cease such fundraising as Clinton ramps up her expected campaign drive.
You haven't arrived until everyone is offering you job; and once hired you don't make waves with money like that at stake. The great and the good are bound together by chains of gold. Some will argue this is a good thing. The Clintons were perhaps the first prominent American politicians to understand that Globalization made it possible for an international elite to settle all disputes by means of cash payments or penalties. Once the top men had reached an understanding, the elites could jointly rule over the international taxpayer, thus abolishing conflict forever. In today's world no longer are patronage relationships limited to national borders, as was formerly the case. Today, political deal-making is global.
What the international elite is really afraid of are people determined to settle disputes in the traditional way. The basic problem with Vladimir Putin is that he still believes in outdated concepts like national boundaries, Slavic culture, Great Russian glory, etc. He hasn't yet grasped that in polite circles, nationality is now an illusion. If only he would fall in line and take his share.


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US 4114305 A Abstract One or more LEDs are connected across an induction coil wound on a tube slidably carrying an axially polarized permanent magnet, the tube being closed at both ends so that axial reciprocation of the tube causes the magnet to move back and forth through the coil and energize the LEDs.
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a body, a pulse generator hermetically sealed within said body, said pulse generator including a non-magnetic tube closed at both ends, a coil of insulated, conductive wire wound on an intermediate section of said tube, and an elongated, axially polarized, permanent magnet slidably disposed in said tube, an electric lamp mounted to said body in a position to be visible from the exterior of said body conductive means electrically connecting said lamp across said coil, and means for attaching a fishing line to said body so that a longitudinal jerk of said line causes said magnet to move through said coil to generate a pulse of current which causes said lamp to emit a flash of light. 2. A fish lure according to claim 1 comprising
resilient means disposed at the ends of said tube for causing said magnet to bounce back and forth in said tube when said fish line is jerked. 3. A fish lure according to claim 1 wherein
said electric lamp is a light emitting diode. 4. A fish lure according to claim 3 comprising
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said body is elongated, said fishing line being connected to one end of said body. 6. A fish lure according to claim 5 wherein
said tube lies substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of said body. Description The present invention relates in general to the art of generating pulses of voltage and current, and it relates more particularly to a novel method and apparatus for emitting light in response to physical movement of a body. It is well known that electricity is generated in an electric coil when the coil is in the presence of a changing magnetic field. Electric generators operating on this principal have been designed wherein a piston carrying one or more permanent magnets is reciprocally driven back and forth through a coil. For several reasons, however, such devices have not been used to any great extent. There are many applications for a small size, low power electric generator which produces voltage pulses in response to physical movement. Such a generator is particularly well suited for energizing light emitting diodes since such devices operate at extremely low current levels, and would have many applications in movement detecting instruments and in accelerometers. In another application, the generator can be attached to a limb or torso of a person or other animal so as to produce light pulses in response to body movements. A light sensitive recorder may be associated with the diode to provide a permanent record of such movements. Another application of this invention is in a fish lure wherein one or more light emitting diodes mounted on the lure flash in response to sudden movement of the lure as the fishing line is jerked. Since such a generator has no parts requiring replacement, it can be fixedly and sealably mounted in the body of the lure. Another use for the pulse generator and one or more associated light emitting diodes is in infants' toys. Such a generator is easily incorporated in a baby rattle where the blinking light is amusing and useful in the development of the infant. Also, such a generator can be mounted to a wheel of a push or pull toy so that the light emitting diode blinks on and off as the wheel turns. Briefly, there is provided in accordance with one aspect of the present invention a method of generating electric pulses by reciprocating a non-magnetic tube to cause a permanent magnet slidably mounted therein to move back and forth through a coil wound on the tube. In accordance with another feature of the invention there is provided an elongated non-magnetic non-conductive tube, closed at both ends and having an axially polarized permanent magnet freely slidable therein. An induction coil is wound on the central portion of the tube and the lengths of the magnet and tube are such that the magnet can move completely through the coil in both directions. One or more light emitting diodes connected across the coil flash each time the magnet moves through the coil at at least a predetermined velocity. The faster the movement of the magnet the greater will be the voltage generated. Diodes having different forward conducting voltage levels with suitable resistors may thus be connected in parallel across the coil to provide an indication of the physical acceleration of the generator. Several different devices utilizing the said generator are described in detail hereinafter but it will be understood that the basic method and apparatus of the invention has many other applications. Further objects and advantages and a better understanding of the present invention can be had by reference to the following detailed description, wherein: FIG. 1 is a longitudinally sectioned view of a pulsating light source embodying the present invention; FIG. 2 is an illustration of the waveform of the voltage developed across the coil in the device of FIG. 1 as the magnet moves from one end of the device to the other; FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of an accelerometer embodying the present invention; FIG. 4 is a partially sectioned side view of a fish lure embodying the invention; FIG. 5 is a partially sectioned side view of a baby rattle embodying the invention; FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a wheeled vehicle embodying the invention; and FIG. 7 illustrates the present invention as part of a motion indicator for attachment to the torso of a person or other animal. Referring to FIG. 1, a pulsating light generator 10 comprises an elongated non-magnetic tube 11 formed of a suitable non-conductive rigid material having non-magnetic end caps 12 and 13 affixed to and closing the respective ends thereof. An induction coil 14 is wound on the central portion of the tube 11 and a cylindrical permanent magnet 15 is slidably disposed in the tube 11. As indicated in the drawing, the magnet 15 is polarized in an axial direction and has a length less than the distances between the inner walls of the end caps 12 and 13 and the adjacent ends of the coil 14 whereby the magnet 15 may be positioned in the tube 11 completely out of the coil 14. An electric light source such, for example, as a pair of LEDs 16 and 17 is connected across the coil 14. The light emitting diodes 16 and 17 are connected in parallel in opposite conditions of polarity so that one LED emits light when the voltage polarity is in one direction and the other LED emits light when the voltage polarity is in the opposite direction. The inner wall of the tube 11 is preferably smooth thereby to provide only a small physical resistance to the movement of the magnet 15 through the tube 11. The magnet 15 is preferably a solid metallic member having a sufficient mass so that when the tube 11 is physically shaken or reciprocated in an axial direction the magnet 15 moves back and forth from one end of the tube to the other thereby completely passing through the coil 14. With reference to FIG. 2, the waveform of voltage which is shown therein is theoretically generated as the magnet 15 moves from one end of the tube to the other. In actuality each of the positive and negatively going pulses more closely resemble one-half of a sinewave, but it is believed that the present invention may be more readily understood by reference to the theoretical wave forms. The point A on the wave form occurs as the leading end of the magnet moves into proximity with the coil 14. The point B occurs when the leading end of the magnet is fully within the coil 14 but the effect of the trailing end has not yet manifested itself. The point C occurs when the number of turns of the coil 14 linked by the magnetic field begins to decrease as, for example, when the leading edge begins to move out of the coil in the case of a long magnet or in the case of a short magnet as the trailing edge moves into the coil while the leading edge is still within the coil. The point D occurs when there is no change in the number of turns linked by the magnetic field. This zero output voltage condition continues until the turns begin to become unlinked. Where, for example, the effective length of the magnet 15 is equal to the length of the coil 14 the output voltage simply crosses through zero in its excursion from the positive to the negative value. The negative voltage is generated as the number of turns linked by the magnetic flux is decreasing. Assuming that the light source 16 is an LED and has a forward conducting voltage of V1, the diode 16 will be energized and emit light as the magnet 15 moves between the positions E and F as shown in FIG. 2. In like manner, the LED 17, being polarized in the opposite direction relative to the LED 16 and the coil 14, will emit light while the magnet moves between the positions G and H. Accordingly, as the magnet 15 moves from one end of the tube 11 to the other first the LED 17 and then the LED 16 blinks on and off. The device of FIG. 1 may be used as an accelerometer by employing diodes 16 and 17 which have different forward conducting voltages so that, for example, the diode 16 will emit light in response to a predetermined acceleration while the diode 17 will not emit light unless the acceleration is greater than that which causes the diode 16 to be energized. In FIG. 3 there is illustrated in schematic form an accelerometer using two pairs of three light emitting diodes having different forward conducting voltage levels. Preferably, these diodes respectively emit light at different spectral positions thereby facilitating the visual recognition of the degree of acceleration of the associated generator. In this embodiment of the invention it is preferred for many applications that the electric generator portion of the device be connected to the diodes by means of a flexible electric conductor so that the read-out panel incorporating the light sources can be mounted in a physically isolated position from the generator whereby movement of the generator is not transmitted to the read-out panel. It will be apparent that a permanent recording device may be associated with the read-out panel 20 and that additional generators oriented in a plurality of different positions as shown in dotted lines may be connected in parallel with the other generators thereby to indicate an acceleration in a number of different directions. Referring to FIG. 4, a fish lure 24 includes a body 25 having a cavity 26 therein hermetically sealed from the exterior of the body 25. An electric generator 27 of the type illustrated in FIG. 1 is mounted within the cavity 26 and connected by a pair of conductors 28 to one or more light emitting diodes 29 mounted to the body portion 25 on the exterior thereof. A suitable connector 30 is mounted at one end of the lure 24 for connection to a fish line 31. The connector 30 is located on the body 25 so that when a sharp tug is exerted on the line 31 the lure 24 moves more or less in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the generator 27. The end caps on the tube may be formed of a resilient material to cause the magnet to bounce back and forth when the line 31 is jerked. While only one diode 29 is illustrated in FIG. 4 it will be understood that two or more such diodes may be employed and they are preferably connected in opposite directions of polarity across the coil. Referring now to FIG. 5, an infant's rattle 38 has a central tubular handle portion 39 and enlarged ball-like ends 40 and 41. A pulse generator 42 constructed in accordance with the illustration of FIG. 1 is mounted in the handle 39 and a plurality of LED devices 43 are connected in parallel across the coil portion of the generator 42 and mounted in visible locations on the end portions 40 and 41 of the rattle. It will be apparent that shaking of the rattle 38 in the axial direction will cause the magnet in the generator to reciprocate back and forth through the coil 44 to cause the diodes 43 to emit pulses of light. Referring to FIG. 6, a toy 47 has a rotatable wheel 48 thereon. An electric pulse generator invention is mounted on the side of the wheel 48 and is illustrated by the number 49. The generator thus emits pulses of electricity as the wheel 48 is rotated at a speed such that the magnet is not held in one end of the tube by centrifugal force. Associated light emitting diodes may be mounted at any suitable location on the toy and connected through suitable slip rings to the generator 49. Also, the pulse generator may be mounted inside the drum and caused to move up and down by a suitable mechanical linkage. The invention finds similar applications on other types of toys such as those where a child strikes an anvil with a mallet thereby causing the magnet to move through the coil. Referring to FIG. 7 there is shown the device of the present invention as a novelty item. In that case the generator, identified at 51, includes a strap or belt 52 for attachment thereof to a limb or torso of a person. A pair of flexible connectors 53 electrically connect a plurality of light emitting diodes 54 in parallel across the coil of the generator 51. These diodes, may be mounted, for example, in earrings, on a necktie as shown or incorporated in other types of necklaces, in the hair or in any other suitable location. Preferably, although not necessarily the diodes are not mounted directly on the generator so that the portion of the body which is moving to generate the pulses of electric energy for energizing the diodes does not necessarily physically move the diodes 54. While the present invention has been described in connection with particular embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that many changes and modifications may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such changes and modifications which come within the true spirit and scope of this invention. Patent Citations
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Monday, August 11, 2014
CFP: Feminist Judgments
Inspired by the successful - - - and fun! - - - Feminist Judgments in the UK, the American version of Feminist Judgments is seeking contributors. [update: And be sure to check out the terrific Canadian version here, which was the inspiration for the UK version].
Here's the call:
The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of revised opinions and commentary for an edited collection entitled Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court. This edited volume is a collaborative project among feminist law professors and others to rewrite, from a feminist perspective, key Supreme Court decisions relevant to gender issues. Editors Kathy Stanchi, Linda Berger and Bridget Crawford seek prospective authors for 20 to 25 rewritten Supreme Court opinions covering a range of topics including reproductive rights, equal protection, the state's use of criminal power, privacy, the family, women's political participation, Title IX, employment discrimination and substantive due process.
The editors also seek authors for commentaries of 1,500 to 2,500 words to put into context each of the rewritten cases.
The U.S. Feminist Judgments project was inspired by the successful collection and publication in Britain of FeministJudgments: From Theory to Practice, edited by Rosemary Hunter, Clare McGlynn, and Erika Rackley. This volume, which included feminist versions of twenty-three key British decisions from the Court of Appeal and House of Lords, was published in 2010 and has been very well received.
Like the sister project in Britain, the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project endeavors to pioneer "a new form of critical socio-legal scholarship" that illustrates how cases could have been decided differently had afeminist method been employed. We believe that U.S. Supreme Court law is ripe for this kind of scholarly treatment.
Those who are interested in rewriting an opinion or providing the commentary on one of the rewritten opinions should fill out an application here:
Applicants may indicate their preferences among the list of cases. Applicants also may suggest other cases for rewriting. The tentative cases were chosen with the input and advice of an Advisory Panel of distinguished U.S. scholars including Kathryn Abrams, Katharine Bartlett, Devon Carbado, Mary Anne Case, Erwin Chemerinsky, April Cherry, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Martha Fineman, Margaret Johnson, Sonia Katyal, Nancy Leong, Catharine MacKinnon, Rachel Moran, Melissa Murray, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Nancy Polikoff, Dorothy Roberts, Dan Rodriguez, Susan Ross, Vicki Schultz, Dean Spade, Robin West, and Verna Williams.
August 11, 2014 in Gender, Scholarship, Supreme Court (US) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CFP: The Snowden Effect
The Law Review at Lincoln Memorial University in Knoxville, Tennessee is soliciting papers for its January Symposium "The Snowden Effect."
Here's the call for what looks like an important conference:
Call for Papers
The staff of the Lincoln Memorial University Law Review invites submissions related to its Spring 2015 Symposium entitled "The Snowden Effect: The Impact of Spilling National Secrets." The Symposium will be held on Friday, January 30, 2015 at the LMU-Duncan School of Law in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee.
The LMU Law Review's goal for the Symposium is to facilitate discussion among scholars and practitioners regarding the implications of the national security disclosures by former government contractor Edward Snowden. Topics will include, but not necessarily be limited to: the protection of government sources and methods; Fourth Amendment and privacy issues; the effect of the Snowden disclosures and other such security leaks on U.S. foreign policy, particularly or relationships with our allies; surveillance state concerns; and the classification of government material.
The LMU Law Review will publish a dedicated symposium issue related to the Symposium's theme. The Law Review welcomes submissions for this specially-themed issue, which will be comprised of several articles, notes, and essays bringing together leading experts on the theory, application, and scholarly analysis of these contemporary national security issues.
To be considered for publication in the symposium issue, please submit by October 15, 2014: (1) an abstract or a draft article; and (2) a curriculum vitae (CV). Participation in the Symposium is not a requirement for publication in the symposium issue. All materials should be submitted through the LMU Law Review's website.
For more information contact the Editor in Chief of the law review at jacob.baggett (AT)lmunet.edu.
August 11, 2014 in Conferences, First Amendment, Foreign Affairs, Scholarship, State Secrets | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, July 21, 2014
Obama (& Bush) on Executive Orders Regarding LGBT Discrimination and Religion
Today President Obama signed an Executive Order: "Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity."
Basically, the Order broadens the grounds of prohibited discrimination by the federal government to encompass sexual orientation and gender identity.
Here's the video put out by the White House:
And here are some more specific details:
The Executive Order broadens the terms of prohibited discrimination in federal employment in Executive Order 11478 by President Nixon, as amended to include "sexual orientation" in Executive Order 13087 by President Clinton to now include "gender identity."
It also broadens the terms of prohibited discrimination by federal contractors in Executive Order 11246 issued by Lyndon Johnson to now include "sexual orientation and gender identity."
As the White House Press Release makes clear, the federal contractors Executive Order does not contain an explicit religious exemption, but does preserve the one issued by George W. Bush, Executive Order 13279, which amended 11246 to exempt "a Government contractor or subcontractor that is a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society, with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by such corporation, association, educational institution, or society of its activities. Such contractors and subcontractors are not exempted or excused from complying with the other requirements contained in this Order."
But what about Bush's Executive Order? Entitled "Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations," the 2002 Executive Order was controversial.
This might be a good time to reread Michele Gilman's terrific article from 2007, If at First You Don't Succeed, Sign an Executive Order: President Bush and the Expansion of Charitable Choice, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1103 (2007). Gilman argues that Bush has exceeded his constitutional powers. Her main arguments are about social service providers and grants - - - not at issue in Obama's Executive Order Amendments issued today - - - but she spends a substantial section looking at procurement, including an enlightening discussion of JFK's two executive orders requiring federal contractors to take affirmative action to promote full employment opportunities.
And Gilman's article is a good "test" for those arguing that Obama has exceeded constitutional power by issuing Executive Orders.
While preserving Bush's Order and not including a broader exemption as some had wanted, the Executive Order preserves the status quo. It allows religious entities to discriminate on the basis of religion, but not on any other basis. The White House Press Release adds that "under the First Amendment, religious entities are permitted to make employment decisions about their ministers as they see fit." It does not mention the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the statute on which last month's controversial Hobby Lobby decision was grounded, allowing a religious exemption from the provision of employee insurance coverage for certain contraception.
July 21, 2014 in Equal Protection, Executive Authority, Gender, Scholarship, Sexual Orientation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, July 4, 2014
Equality at the Core of the Declaration
Danielle Allen's (Princeton) just pubished her new book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality right in time for your own annual reading of the Declaration--today, July the Fourth.
Allen's book is a meditation on the Declaration that starts with her own teaching of the document and moves through history, philosophy, culture, and, of course, a close reading of the text. More importantly, it's an argument that equality is at the Declaration's core--a point often missed in today's liberty-laden reading of the document (and today's liberty-laden politics).
[The Declaration] makes an argument about political equality. . . . [I]t makes a cogent philosophical case for political equality, a case that democratic citizens desperately need to understand. . . .
The purpose of democracy is to empower individual citizens and give them sufficient control over their lives to protect themselves from domination. In their ideal form, democracies empower each and all such that none can dominate any of the others, nor any one group, another group of citizens. . . .
The point of political equality is not merely to secure spaces free from domination but also to engage all members of a community equally in the work of creating and constantly re-creating that community. Political equality is equal political empowerment.
Allen was recently in the news for her argument that there's really no period after "Happiness" in the text, despite its inclusion in the official transcript of the document at NARA. That's important, because without a period the link between the rights to "life, liberty, and happiness" and the purpose of government is even yet closer. That is: without a period, it's even clearer that government is "instituted among men" in order to secure our rights to "life, liberty, and happiness."
You can hear Allen on the Diane Rehm show yesterday. Here's WaPo's book review.
July 4, 2014 in History, Interpretation, News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Zelinsky on I Know It When I See It
Nathaniel Zelinsky, writing over at Concurring Opinions, traces the history and subsequent use of Justice Potter Stewart's famous phrase from his concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio. Zelinsky found earlier uses of the phrase, or very similar phrases, but writes that Alan Novak, one of Justice Stewart's clerks, "remembered the phrase emerging out of a conversation with the justice. And it was, according to Novak, Stewart who wrote the actual opinion, including the seven words." Justice Stewart did not intend "to create a widespread sensation"; indeed, news coverage at the time all but ignored the phrase--and all but ignored Jacobellis, in favor of Quantity of Books v. Kansas, another obscenity case handed down that day.
Zelinsky offers this advice:
The unintentional popularity of "I know it when I see it" should be a note of caution for legal authors in the public sphere, from jurists to commentators more generally: it is very difficult to predict in advance what will capture widespread attention among the non-legal public. . . . On the flip side, the legal corpus is full of opinions whose authors hoped would be earthquakes but whose prose was then largely ignored.
June 19, 2014 in First Amendment, News, Scholarship, Speech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Unanimous Supreme Court in Lane v. Franks: First Amendment Protects Public Employee's Subpoenaed Testimony
In an unanimous opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with an exceedingly brief concurring opinion by Justice Thomas, joined by Scalia and Alito, the Court held in Lane v. Franks that the First Amendment "protects a public employee who provided truthful sworn testimony, compelled by subpoena, outside the course of his ordinary job responsibilities." However the Court held that the defendant sued in his personal capacity had qualified immunity because such a holding was not "beyond debate."
Recall from our previous discussions of the case including the certiorari grant, the law professors amicus brief, and oral argument that the underlying facts are extremely sympathetic to Edward Lane, the public employee who uncovered gross corruption of an elected state legislator and was later subpoenaed to testify in the federal criminal prosecution. Indeed, even the Attorney General for the state contended at oral argument that the Eleventh Circuit was incorrect to conclude that the employee's speech was not within the strictures of the Court's most recent public employee First Amendment case, Garcetti v. Ceballos.
On the issue of qualified immunity, however, the Court affirmed the Eleventh Circuit, finding that although the Eleventh Circuit was clearly wrong on the merits, the First Amendment right was not sufficiently "clearly established" at the time Lane was terminated by the college president.
My longer analysis of today's opinion is at SCOTUSBlog here.
June 19, 2014 in Courts and Judging, First Amendment, Opinion Analysis, Scholarship, Supreme Court (US) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Daily Read: Ellen Katz on Hobby Lobby and Citizens United
In her relatively brief essay Hobby Lobby and the Pathology of Citizens United, available on ssrn, Professor Ellen Katz (pictured) advances a doctrinal and jurisprudential argument - - - rather than political or consequentialist ones - - - for the "danger" of Citizens United v. FEC.
Katz contends:
Citizens United read a number of prior decisions to adopt rules those decisions deliberately chose not to espouse. This is not an entirely new move for the Court as it has previously cast off a decision's doctrinal limits and stated normative claims. The contribution of Citizens United, however, was to normalize this stance. The Roberts Court seems increasingly comfortable approaching precedent just as it did in that case. This Essay identifies this move as a consistent practice across a number of decisions, and explains both why it is likely to be used in the pending ACA cases and beyond, and why it is cause for deep concern.
It is a phenomenon Katz labels "fanciful precedent." She contends it was operative in last Term's controversial Shelby County v. Holder.
She argues that it was prominent in Citizens United related to the Court's use of First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (an issue of footnotes as we discuss here and here), in a manner that might foreshadow any Robert Court opinion in Hobby Lobby "relying" on United States v. Lee and Braunfeld v. Brown.
Katz's short piece is worth a read as we await the Court's decision in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (and Conestoga Woods Specialties, Corp. v. Sebelius) argued in March.
June 5, 2014 in Campaign Finance, Courts and Judging, Elections and Voting, First Amendment, Interpretation, Religion, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, May 22, 2014
CFP: Class Crits at UC-Davis November 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION ClassCrits VII
Poverty, Precarity, and Work:
Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis
Sponsored by
U.C. Davis School of Law November 14-15, 2014
From the call:
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty," and the establishment of the first Neighborhood Legal Services Program pilot in Washington, D.C. Each of these initiatives attempted to address problems of structural economic inequality—problems that remain with us nationally and internationally . The seventh meeting of ClassCrits will focus on work, poverty, and resistance in an age of increasing economic insecurity.
In law, it is generally easier to discuss "poverty" than to look deeply into its causes and incidents—including income and wealth inequality, the close interaction of class and race in America, and the connections between gender and economic hardship. It is also easier to discuss "poverty" than what some scholars call "precarity"—the increasing vulnerability of workers, even those above the official poverty line, to disaster. Precarity has both economic and political roots. Its economic sources include the casualization of labor, low wages, persistently high unemployment rates, inadequate social safety nets, and constant vulnerability to personal financial catastrophes. Its political sources include the success of neoliberal ideology, upward redistribution of wealth, increasing polarization and dysfunction in Congress, and the dependence of both political parties on a steady stream of big money. Precarity is also not limited to the United States, but is reshaping space around the globe. While the aftermath of the housing bubble and subsequent foreclosures drain home values across America and strip equity disproportionately from minority neighborhoods, in developing-country "megacities," millions of slum-dwellers are displaced to make way for high-end residential and commercial real estate developments.
Finally, this conference focuses on challenging structural forms of inequality from a place of compassion and creating possibilities for resilience. In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring." In this spirit, ClassCrits VII will explore the risks, uncertainty, and structural challenges of this period and discuss possibilities for shared goals and new forms of resistance."
More details here.
May 22, 2014 in Conferences, Equal Protection, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Waldman's Biography of the Second Amendment
Michael Waldman, writing over at Politico, tells the story of how the NRA rewrote the Second Amendment, not through the Article V process, but through persistent and carefully calculated political action and legal argument. Over time, the NRA's position worked its way into the consciousness of politicians and judges and lawyers and ordinary people, until Heller seemed to many (and obviously most on the Court) like an inevitability. That process--and not raw legal argument, not some new and significant historical find, and certainly not a constitutional amendment--is how we got the individual right to keep and carry guns, according to Waldman.
Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, writes on the occasion of the release of his latest book, The Second Amendment: A Biography.
Waldman's piece in Politico is as much about the political process of constitutional change as it is about the Second Amendment. In that way, it's a how-to for anyone interested in influencing the direction of constitutional law outside the amendment process, and a healthy reminder that a well organized movement can still influence the direction of American constitutional law:
So how does legal change happen in America? We've seen some remarkably successful drives in recent years--think of the push for marriage equality, or to undo campaign finance laws. Law students might be taught that the court is moved by powerhouse legal arguments or subtle shifts in doctrine. The National Rifle Association's long crusade to bring its interpretation of the Constitution into the mainstream teaches a different lesson: Constitutional change is the product of public argument and political maneuvering. The pro-gun movement may have started with scholarship, but then it targeted public opinion and shifted the organs of government. By the time the issue reached the Supreme Court, the desired new doctrine fell like a ripe apple from a tree.
May 20, 2014 in Fundamental Rights, Interpretation, News, Scholarship, Second Amendment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunstein on Epstein's Classical Liberal Constitution
Cass Sunstein, writing over at the New Republic, called Richard Epstein's latest book, The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government, "passionate, learned, and committed," "a full-scale and full-throated defense of his unusual [libertarian] vision of the Constitution," and his "magnum opus." Sunstein also places Epstein at the center of Tea Party constitutionalism, "the man who made libertarians wrong about the Constitution." "Everyone knows who Rand Paul's father is, but in an intellectual sense it is Richard Epstein who is his daddy."
But Sunstein argues that Epstein is a "stranger in a strange land" in arguing about the Constitution--that he "is steeped not in American constitutional law but in Anglo-American common law." According to Sunstein, Epstein's views are more moral than doctrinal or historical (and certainly not originalist), and that he's "playing Dworkin's game" of reading the text through a moral lens:
Epstein is a moral reader. He objects that progressives ignore the constitutional text, and of course he cares about it, but he acknowledges that on many issues that matter, the text, standing alone, does not mandate his interpretation. Where the rubber hits the road, his real argument is not about Madison and Hamilton, the inevitable meaning of words, or the placement of commas; it is an emphatically moral one. Informed though it is by a certain strand in liberal thought, it reflects what he thinks morality requires. Of course other people think differently. There is an important lesson here about Tea Party constitutionalism as a whole, for the supposed project of "restoring" the original Constitution, or going back to the genius of the Founding generation, is often about twenty-first century political convictions, not about the recovery of history.
May 20, 2014 in Interpretation, News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Civil Liberties & Security Scholarship Award Nominations
Nominations/Applications due July 1, 2014
for the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
The prize honors a work of scholarship - - - book or article - - - that explores the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society.
"The $10,000 prize is designed to encourage and reward public debate among scholars on current issues affecting the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of governments throughout the world."
Details here.
Last year's prize-winner was The Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars (Oxford University Press 2012) by Ganesh Sitaraman.
May 20, 2014 in Current Affairs, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Daily Read: Michele Gilman on the "Court for the One Percent"
If the defining issue of the United States is inequality, how is the nation's highest Court addressing that issue?
According to Michele Gilman's new article, A Court for the One Percent: How the Supreme Court Contributes to Economic Inequality, forthcoming in the Utah Law Review and available on ssrn, the Court is decidely part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
Gilman's article is valuable because it traverses several different doctrinal areas. Obviously, she discusses Citizens United. But - - - refreshingly - - - she argues that "Citizens United is just one piece of a larger problem." She contends that this problem did not begin with the Roberts' Court, as her discussions of Harris v. McCrae, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, and Dandridge v. Williams illustrate. Ultimately, she suggests that the Court stands in the way of addressing inequality because the legislative and policy suggestions that have worked in other "affluent democracies" will be deemed unconstitutional in the United States:
We currently have a Court majority that is not only unsympathetic to inequality arguments, but also seemingly oblivious to (or skeptical of) the connection between government policies and market outcomes. The Court has ruled that it is up to the legislative branch, rather than the Courts, to remedy economic inequality. Yet, the Court has doomed legislative enactments that would ameliorate inequality, such as desegregation plans, campaign finance reforms, and consumer protection laws. Conversely, when legislatures enact policies that tend to worsen economic inequality or magnify its effects, the Court defers, such as school financing laws and voter identification requirements. In short, the Court's rulings consistently sustain policies that create or maintain economic inequality.
Gilman has some explanations for this state of affairs, but, more importantly, she proposes a proactive five point plan of change. This important article is worth a read.
May 7, 2014 in Equal Protection, Fourteenth Amendment, Race, Recent Cases, Reproductive Rights, Scholarship, Supreme Court (US) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, May 5, 2014
Speech the Justices Agree With
Supreme Court justices are opportunistic supporters of free speech, according to a study by Profs. Lee Epstein (Southern California/Washington University), Christopher M. Parker (Centenary College), and Jeffrey A. Segal (Stony Brook), reviewed by Adam Liptak in the NYT. That is, "liberal (conservative) justices are supportive of free speech when the speaker is liberal (conservative)."
The study looked at 516 free speech cases from 1953 to 2011, "from Hugo Black to Elena Kagan," involving "liberal" and "conservative" speech and concluded that "the votes of both liberal and conservative justices tend to reflect their preferences toward the ideological groupings of the speaker."
Among sitting justices, the study found that Justice Scalia had the largest gap between votes for liberal and conservative speech, followed closely by Justice Thomas.
The liberals "present a more complex story." The study found that the gap for Justice Ginsburg was small, and for Justice Breyer "negligible." The study did not include Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, due to lack of meaningful data.
May 5, 2014 in First Amendment, News, Scholarship, Speech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, April 25, 2014
Oral Argument Preview: Employee Speech at the Supreme Court and the Amicus Brief of Law Professors
As we explained when certiorari was granted in Lane v. Franks, the case involves a public employee's First Amendment rights in the context of retaliation and raising questions about the interpretation of Garcetti v. Ceballos. My preview of Monday's oral argument is at SCOTUSBlog here.
The Brief of Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioner, the employee Edward Lane, available on ssrn, advances two basic arguments.
The first argument is essentially that the Eleventh Circuit's opinion was a clearly erroneous expansion of Garcetti to include Lane's subpoened testimony in a criminal trial. Here's an especially trenchant paragraph:
But the Garcetti Court took great pains to distinguish Mr. Ceballos from Mr. Pickering [in Pickering v. Board of Education (1968)], who spoke about what he observed and learned at his workplace and identified himself as a teacher in doing so, and Ms. Givhan [in Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1979)], who spoke to her own supervisors about what she observed at her workplace and did so while at work. Neither of these employees could have prevailed if any speech they would not have made but for their employment were excluded from the First Amendment's protections. The sole fact distinguishing Mr. Ceballos from these other two defendants was that neither Mr. Pickering nor Ms. Givhan was required by their employment contracts to engage in the speech for which they were punished. Petitioner was not required by his job duties to testify in court, so his speech is as protected as Ms. Givhan's and Mr. Pickering's.
(emphasis in original). There are similar arguments in the merits briefs, but advancing this doctrinal clarity in the law professors' brief is not misplaced, given that the Eleventh Circuit's summary opinion had so little specific analysis.
Perhaps more common to an amicus brief are the policy arguments raised here regarding the importance of protecting testimony by public employees from retaliation by their government employers. The brief's "judicial integrity" argument seeks to draw an interesting parallel, arguing it is
crucial that public employees be able to speak freely and truthfully about government malfeasance so that the judicial process is not distorted. Distortion of the litigation process occurs when public employees do not feel free to testify in various legal proceedings for fear of losing their jobs. This Court expressed analogous concerns in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez, 531 U.S. 533 (2001), where the Court struck down as violative of the First Amendment a federally imposed restriction prohibit- ing Legal Services Corporation ("LSC")-funded attorneys, as a condition of the receipt of federal funds, from challenging the legality or constitutionality of existing welfare laws. . . . No less than in Velazquez, "[t]he restriction imposed by the [lack of protection for public employee testimonial speech] threatens severe impairment of the judicial function." Id. at 546.
The brief argues in favor of a bright line rule that testimony is "citizen speech" and thus protected by the First Amendment. Whether the line should be so bright might be a topic at oral argument given the arguments in the other briefs.
The named authors of the law professors brief, ConLawProfs Paul Secunda, Scott Bauries, and Sheldon Nahmod, and the signatories, provide a terrific model of "engaged scholarship" and advocacy, and all in approximately 25 pages.
April 25, 2014 in Courts and Judging, First Amendment, Scholarship, Speech, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A Conversation with the Chief Justice of the South African Con Court
Drew Cohen recently published A Constitution at a Crossroads: A Conversation with the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights. The interview covers transformative constitutionalism (including judicial transformation and the role of judges) and current constitutional issues in South Africa, with some background and context for the uninitiated. It's a terrific piece on the current and future state of South African constitutionalism; it has some gems on comparative constitutionalism, as well.
Cohen, a contributor to U.S. News & World Report and The Huffington Post, is a former foreign law clerk to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, whom he interviewed for this piece.
Here's a clip of the Chief Justice's response to Cohen's question whether South African judges should be "umpires":
Given our background and our Constitution, judges do not have the luxury to sit back and pretend that we do not have serious challenges, which can be addressed through a passive justice system. I do not think we can afford to be the type of umpires Chief Justice Roberts had in mind.
Whatever we, as judges, do must facilitate nation-building so far as the case makes it possible by actively addressing the socioeconomic challenges that still confront certain sectors of the community as well as addressing the position of women in every sector of our society. Whereas that may not be feasible for judges in the U.S., it must [be the case] in South Africa. We have a different set of challenges that require judges to be somewhat proactive in the manner in which they approach their judicial responsibilities.
On the use of foreign law:
Once our jurisprudence gets settled, once it gets to the point that everyone can say that it is fairly well developed, there will be very little reason to rely as much as we used to on the jurisprudence of other countries. With that said, obviously, we will still need to have some regard to the latest developments in comparable jurisdictions. This is particularly true with regards to the area of socioeconomic rights and property law.
On closing the gap between reality and an aspirational Constitution:
What the Court can do, however, is interpret the Constitution in a manner so as to ensure that every official who has a constitutional responsibility to close that gap . . . are held accountable.
I think that the Court, however, has done fairly well in its efforts to close that gap. Look at our judgments dealing with socioeconomic rights[,] . . . health issues[,] . . . housing[,] . . . natural resources . . . .
On the next big issues:
The next major court battles will involve the agricultural sector. If you look at the agricultural sector then you will realize that a very large percentage of commercial farmers are still those from the previously advantaged group[] . . . . For the few [previously disadvantaged] that have received land through the government's redistribution system, it does not look like enough was done to empower them to be able to use the land productively. So, I think a lot needs to be done in the area of land redistribution but this must occur in a very, very slow and careful process.
April 15, 2014 in Comparative Constitutionalism, International, Interpretation, News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Constitutional Design in the Muslim World
Northwestern University Law School just wrapped up its 2013-2014 colloquium series on Constitutional Design in the Muslim World--an outstanding series of presentations convened by Profs. Erin Delaney and Kristen Stilt. The program's web-site contains a list of presenters with links to their papers, videos of presentations, links, and a blog. Check it out.
April 9, 2014 in Comparative Constitutionalism, Conferences, International, News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, April 7, 2014
Daily Read: Deven Desai on Data Hoarding and Associational Freedom
"The amount of data available to law enforcement creates a type of honey pot—a trap that lures and tempts government to use data without limits." What should the constitutional limits be? And what is their source? In a new article, Constitutional Limits on Surveillance: Associational Freedom in the Age of Data Hoarding, available on ssrn (and forthcoming in Notre Dame Law Review) Law Prof Deven Desai (pictured) argues that constitutional protections for association - - - rooted in the Fourth Amendment as well as the First - - - is a method for disciplining governmental access to both forward and backward-looking surveillance in our current age of "data hoarding."
The mechanisms for information gathering have taken different forms at different times in history, but regardless of the precise method or when the acts occur, we can see the goal: suppression of association. Mail has been read, student speech and political actions watched, library records obtained, membership in the Communist Party scrutinized, a list of individuals to detain in case of a national security emergency created, a fifteen year program to gather information about "the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, antiwar groups, civil rights groups, women's rights groups, and gay rights groups" created, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King threatened depending on various perceived threats and surveillance programs. These practices now include the FBI's gathering of publicly available information "directly," through third parties, or if handed over "voluntarily" by third parties. The NSA's recent activities map to the same behaviors that threaten and attack associational freedom. The NSA has targeted online activities of alleged Muslim radicalizers—those who offer troubling speeches—to secure information, such as about viewing pornography online, to discredit or embarrass the speakers. That tactic is not about law enforcement. Just as those in power have gone after the Democratic-Republican Societies, war protestors, civil rights activists, and others questioning the government, the tactic is about intimidation and suppression. One might try and argue that all this activity is only for national security and anti-terror investigations and thus permitted under current laws. But NSA activities have not been cabined to national security interests. The NSA is not allowed to spy on domestic targets. It has done so anyway. The NSA's "Associational Tracking Program" has collected purely domestic communication information including from and to whom a call is made, the length of the call, and when the call is made, on a daily basis for later analysis by the NSA. This data has come directly from telecommunication providers such as Verizon, which complied with a court order. 165 In addition, the NSA has hacked telecommunication lines to gain access to communications and metadata passing through Google and Yahoo data centers.
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Ultimately, Desai contends that "pervasive surveillance turns us into sheep." But the First Amendment has not been sufficient to protect against surveillance because a "mypoic" view of the First Amendment as requiring expressive speech misses the associational aspects at stake. Additionally, the associational aspects of the Fourth Amendment are often neglected, but should be considered "core."
Given the continuing revelations about widespread surveillance, Desai's intervention and suggested reorientation of doctrine is certainly worth a serious read.
April 7, 2014 in Association, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Interpretation, Privacy, Scholarship, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Sunday Dress: Kort on Revitalizing Tinker
In her article "An Imminent Substantial Disruption: Towards a Uniform Standard for Balancing the Rights of Students to Speak and the Rights of Administrators to Discipline" (forthcoming in Dartmouth Law Journal; available in draft on ssrn), Allison Kort (pictured) revisits the problems and issues with the landmark 1969 First Amendment case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
Kort argues that courts "frequently make an end run around Tinker by deferring to the school board on the "reasonableness" of the school's action, or deciding these cases on the basis of the speech's content," even as neither "students nor school officials enjoy clear awareness of students' rights to free speech and expression, and students are subject to personal opinions of the school boards."
Certainly Kort's contention is demonstrated by cases such as B.H. v. Easton Area School District (the "I heart boobies bracelet" case) in which a divided Third Circuit en banc held the students had First Amendment rights and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. It's also illustrated by the Confederate flag wear cases, with the United States Supreme Court likewise recently denying certiorari. And Mary Beth Tinker, who is "on tour" encouraging students to exercise their First Amendment rights would undoubtedly agree that there needs to be more awareness.
Kort's solution is a revitalization of Tinker, so that courts actually apply Tinker (rather than its progeny - - - Fraser, Hazelwood, and Morse - - - that "chip away" at Tinker) and to apply the "substantial disruption" standard to mean a "imminent danger that a compelling state interest will be violated."
While not all school speech cases involve attire and grooming regulations, a substantial portion do. Kort's article will therefore be of special interest to advocates and scholars working in the continuing and contentious field of student dress codes and "dressing constitutionally."
April 6, 2014 in Federalism, First Amendment, Scholarship, Speech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, April 4, 2014
Daily Read: E-Book by Collins and Skover on McCutcheon and Campaign Finance
Published on the same day that the Court rendered its 5-4 decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, When Money Speaks: The McCutcheon Decision, Campaign Finance Laws, and the First Amendment is an ebook by ConLawProfs Ron Collins and David Skover.
A taste of the authors' analysis is apparent in their "foreward" to the SCOTUSblog symposium on the case, "It's all forward now." They write that in "the past eight years, since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito have been on the Court, the Justices have handed down six First Amendment campaign finance opinions" all of which have declared a campaign finance regulation unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and five of which were 5-4 decisions. They also provide some "takeaways" from the opinion.
The book will certainly be a must-read for anyone interested in campaign finance and the First Amendment.
April 4, 2014 in Books, Campaign Finance, First Amendment, Scholarship, Supreme Court (US) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, March 31, 2014
Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium
Loyola University Chicago School of Law has announced its Fifth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium, set for November 7 and 8, 2014. This is an outstanding national colloquium--a terrific opportunity to present, discuss, and get feedback on your work--that just keeps getting better and better.
Registration is open until June 16, 2014. Organizers will select abstracts (150 to 200 words) on a rolling basis and hope to include all who submit. (Of course, you can attend without presenting.)
Here's the official announcement:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing a Constitutional Law Colloquium at the Philip H. Corboy Law Center, 25 East Pearson Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
This is the Fifth Annual Loyola colloquium and brings together constitutional law scholars at all stages of their professional development to discuss current projects, doctrinal developments in constitutional law, and future goals. We hope to schedule presentations for all who submit. In this way, we will provide a forum for the vetting of ideas and invaluable opportunities for informed critiques. Presentations will be grouped by subject matter.
The Law Center is located on Loyola's Water Tower campus, near Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile, Lake Michigan, Millenium Park, the Chicago Art Institute, and Chicago Symphony Center.
Participants are expected to pay their own travel expenses. Loyola will provide facilities and support.
There are numerous reasonably priced hotels within walking distance of the Loyola School of Law and Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
There's more information at the Colloquium web-site, or contact the organizers or the Administrator:
Professor Barry Sullivan, Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy, firstname.lastname@example.com
Professor Alexander Tsesis, email@example.com
Professor Mike Zimmer, firstname.lastname@example.com
Program Administrator Heather Figus, email@example.com
March 31, 2014 in Conferences, News, Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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My friend Cantpar1 lol, don't ask, told me about this cigar. For weeks when I wanted to try new cigars,I ended up going with what I new was good. I'm here to tell you, this cigar is worth the purchase and more. The taste was awesome, the draw was good and I felt bad at the end because I wish i had another one.A must buy. i rate my cigars on a scale of 1-10. This cigar is a nine.
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If you crave a full-bodied smoke, you will fall in love with this cigar. There is a pleasant hint of sweetness, especially at the start. It remains smooth without any trace of bitterness to the very end.
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I heard good things about this cigar so I decided to buy a single. I was given a bad impression from the get go. There was an gigantic vein running down the entire cigar, with other medium sized veins around, and towards the head it got lumpy. I really didnt get much flavor out of it either. It was very bland so I gave up halfway through. I have a feeling that I just got a bad stick, but I wont be trying it again. Too angry
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Initial flavor is like sweet molasses, but not so sweet as to be nauseating. Sweetness tames down some midway and is joined by wood and cocoa, while building strength. Final third is strongest yet, with still a faint sweetness and refined spice. This stick never went bitter and was ultra smooth throughout despite its full body, all the way down to the last moustache burning half inch. One of the top ten sticks I've ever had. No hard feelings if you don't try 'em, I have no problem indulging in all of them by myself.
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Good Sequel, The last good Ultima...
The Good
The great atmosphere, nice graphics and dark setting gave the game a distinct and unique look. The Avatar now alone and in hostile territory, had to find a way back in Sosaria in order to defeat the Guardian, there are no virtues here, only nasty elemental gods to rob of their powers. The Avatar has no allies and needs to steal, trick, and murder in order to escape Pagan. The premise is great along with great story writing and general ambiance.
The Bad
The scrolling is atrocious, even on top notch hardware the background seems to shift behind the Avatar's feet and the animation lack frames and look bad. The rendered graphics looked good at the time but did not age well, when playing you can notice the repetitive "tiles" that form the backgrounds, some of them don't mesh well with the objects. Really annoying jump puzzles and lack of a party to speak of drag the game down to a watered down action adventure.
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