Irony, thy name is Florida. On Monday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 1, an act “relating to combating public disorder.” The bill passed on strictly partisan votes by Republicans in both the House and Senate with the exception of one GOP senator who voted with Democrats opposing the measure. It contains the following … Read more
On Saturday, I found an envelope with the following return address and postmark in our mailbox. It raised the following questions. Since Senator Rand Paul is from Kentucky, why would he be sending a letter from Fredericksburg, Virginia? If it was official business, why would the envelope have a “non-profit” postmark instead of a … Read more
Proponents of a ban on assault weapons often make this argument. If you are someone who thinks there are that many people out to get you you need an AR-15 to defend yourself, you are probably an individual who should not have access to such lethal armaments. Perhaps the same should hold true for … Read more
In his book The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten gives the following example of the word “chutzpah” which Merriam-Webster defines as “nerve or gall.” A person on trial who, after murdering his mother and father, begs the judge for mercy because he is an orphan. Of course, this example is fiction. Last week Representative … Read more
If we learned nothing else from the 2020 election and its aftermath, we now know what happens to law students who graduated at the bottom quartile of their classes. They represent Republican officials. Not that we needed more proof, but last Tuesday the sample size increased by one during Supreme Court arguments related to … Read more