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August 2019

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 26, 2019 29 Comments
Patti Russo, the woman in charge of the prestigious Women's Campaign School at Yale University, told NBC News that the majority of calls she has received in the last year came from Republic women. Russo explained the school collected "triple the number of applications from Republicans" because these women are "tired of being quiet, and they know they have a lot to give."

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 26, 2019 32 Comments
Reports are circulating that former staffers of and a fundraiser for Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are urging her to drop out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary race.  Stating that she comes across as an "opportunist" and that her debate presence is "performative and obnoxious," the former staffers contend that she should drop out "graciously."

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 26, 2019 43 Comments
By now, Legal Insurrection readers have learned about the 'climate crisis'-infused stories related to the three weeks of wildfires within South America's Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon is known to produce moisture and humidity, making it relatively resistant to wildfires, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Instead, it seems that a combination of droughts, and ranchers and farmers taking advantage of the dry season to burn and clear land for cattle, are to blame.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2019 11 Comments
We always have had a "Reply" function in the comment section on the desktop version of Legal Insurrection. Now we have it on the mobile version.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 26, 2019 50 Comments
Dr. Allen Francis, the former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University, claimed that President Donald Trump "may be more responsible for many more million deaths" that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. He said these comments to Brian Stetler on CNN's Reliable Sources. Stetler did not push back. Instead, Stetler insisted he did not hear Francis's accusations.

Posted by Andrew Pessin on August 25, 2019 6 Comments
Sometimes someone writes something that you wish you yourself had written. A few weeks ago I had just put the finishing touches on my new novel, Nevergreen, a “high-spirited, richly imagined” campus satire that is both “smart and hilarious” (IMHO), when I learned that debut novelist Scott Johnston was a week away from publishing a campus satire called Campusland that Kirkus Reviews described in the words I just quoted.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 25, 2019 60 Comments
In an ongoing war of words, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told European Council President Donald Tusk that he will go down in history as 'Mr No-Deal' if the European Union continues with its refusal to change the withdrawal agreement. The remark came after the European Council President, who head the EU's executive body, said that Prime Minister Johnson should accept the withdrawal agreement handed by Brussels to his predecessor Theresa May as he "will not like to go down in history as 'Mr No Deal'."
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