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What an odd justice system
When the cops raided Zuccotti Park, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street immediately woke up a judge with a civil liberties background and asked for help. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings signed an early-morning order temporarily barring cops from keeping … Continue reading
Insider Trading
Megan McArdle suggests that insider trading may be a “victimless” crime: Of course, if our insider buys shares, someone else doesn’t get them … but there’s no way of knowing whether that person would have held on to the stock … Continue reading
Tea Partiers and Debt Ceiling: the Silver Lining
Some Republicans, including presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, say we should not raise the debt ceiling. Most others (including me) disagree: they believe that Timmy Geithner is telling the truth when he says we’d face a disaster if we failed to … Continue reading
Bill Clinton Wrong on 14th Amendment
Bill Clinton says he’d solve the debt ceiling problem by invoking the 14th amendment (which establishes that the “validity of the public debt… cannot be questioned”) the U.S. from defaulting if an agreement couldn’t be reached: “‘I think the Constitution … Continue reading
Chris Christie: a Sinner
According to Chris Christie’s wife, “her husband’s family responsibilities preclude a run for the presidency.” According to many Republicans, Christie represents our country’s best hope for getting off of the path to ruin that Obama has charted for us. And … Continue reading
“Forgiveness”: A non-sequitur?
I’m reading the book Ill-gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Leo Katz, and so far the book has been an interesting exploration of the question of whether and why it may be ok for 2 … Continue reading
2 kinds of laws
Jack Kervorkian, a champion of personal freedom who helped people die the way they wanted to die, died two days ago of natural causes. John Delaney, an entrepeneur who ran an online current events betting site (www.intrade.com), died last week … Continue reading
Is it wrong to pressure lawyers not to defend unpopular clients?
(updated below – Mon 10:40pm) A week ago, a controversy arose around the fact that gay rights groups pressured the law firm that had planned to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (which prohibits gay marriage) into dropping the case. … Continue reading
Constitution Confusion
In last week’s New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin complains about the Supreme Court’s recent tendency to declare laws that restrict campaign financing (e.g. in Citizens United) unconstitutional. He argues that unrestricted campaign contributions and expenditures, while they may seem to be … Continue reading
Did Kennedy Really Blunder?
A commenter, O.Shane, disagrees with my assessment. In the comments to my previous post, he says: Jonathan, The two cases (a tax credit vs. a government donation) can be mathematically equivalent, but they are not qualitatively equivalent, because intent and … Continue reading