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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2013 6 Comments

While everyone is focused on protests in Cairo, the war continues in Syria. Via Al Jazeera, Syria army launches intense bombing of Homs: Air strikes killed at least three civilians as Syrian government forces intensified their attacks and pressed forward with a new bid to retake several...

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 30, 2013 21 Comments
After days of demonstrations and mounting tension, protests continue across Egypt today  in what is expected to be a peak point in the movement against President Mohammed Morsi. You can follow live coverage and updates below. Video livestream:
Watch live streaming video from ontveglive at livestream.com
Russia Today also has a good live streaming video feed without any commentary, but it's not embeddable - you can view it here in a separate window. On Twitter: Follow the #Egypt and #June30 hashtags: Other coverage: Pat Poole is also live-blogging the protests at Pajamas Media.  You can also follow him on Twitter at @pspoole. https://twitter.com/zakariamj/status/351349295640879106 https://twitter.com/DoaaY/status/351349628349853696 https://twitter.com/MiroEgyptian/status/351349496363499521

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 30, 2013 5 Comments

Major demonstrations are taking place across Egypt Sunday on the first anniversary of President Mohammed Morsi taking office.  Morsi, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, was elected after the January 2011 Arab Spring, which led to the ousting of former president Hosni Mubarak. Observers have grown increasingly...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2013 29 Comments

There will be intense pressure on the House Republicans to approve not just an immigration reform bill, but one that includes citizenship for adults who broke the law to come here. Amnesty is what this debate is all about. Democrats want it in the worst way, and...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 29, 2013 375 Comments

Hey folks, Our Friday end-of-day analysis post had accumulated in excess of 200 comments, and, perhaps coincidentally, we also began hearing increasing complaints of slow loading.  Whether the cause is the large number of comments or some other aspect of the page, Professor Jacobson and I...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 29, 2013 24 Comments

It's worth "liking" the "Ready for Hillary" page on Facebook, the former First Lady's foray into readying the country for her eventual campaign, not only to give your friends a fright, but also to witness just how different her marketing is than her nemesis Barack...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 29, 2013 1 Comment

SCOTUS decisions had some college folks talking this week. DOMA ruling praised by some professors at Catholic universities Not all of it so nice. Students ridicule DOMA supporters as ‘hideous’ and ‘disgusting’ outside Supreme Court George Washington U. student blasts Clarence Thomas as ‘Uncle Tom’ for affirmative action ruling Other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2013 34 Comments

My home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has provided much material for Legal Insurrection over the years, including the dispute as to the name itself. Splitting the year between Ithaca and Rhode Island provided me with the distinction of having Patrick Kennedy and Maurice...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 28, 2013 138 Comments

Under direct testimony John Good testified that the black man wearing the black hoodie was straddling the man in the white or red sweatshirt "MMA-style" and rained down blows in a "Ground-and-Pound" style of attack.   [caption id="attachment_57004" align="alignnone" width="473"] Taryvon Martin at 7-11, February 26, 2012[/caption] It...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 28, 2013 1 Comment

Military Judge Col. Denise Lind ruled Friday that two tweets posted by Wikileaks can be permitted as evidence in the case against Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. From FOX News: A military judge has ruled that prosecutors can introduce tweets suggesting an Army private took his...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 28, 2013 27 Comments

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a resolution Friday determining that IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination when she made opening statements in a May hearing before refusing to answer further questions. https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa/status/350658805895409664 From USA Today: A deeply divided House...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 28, 2013 8 Comments
The Army is reportedly restricting staff members’ internal access to The Guardian UK’s NSA related news coverage. Officials say automatic content filters are responsible. From the Monterey Herald:
Gordon Van Vleet, an Arizona-based spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks." He wrote it is routine for the Department of Defense to take preventative "network hygiene" measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information. "We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security," he wrote, "however, there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information." In a later phone call, Van Vleet said the filter of classified information on public websites was "Armywide" and did not originate at the Presidio. Presidio employees described how they could access the U.S. site, www.guardiannews.com, but were blocked from articles, such as those about the NSA, that redirected to the British site.
Spencer Ackerman, U.S. national security editor at the Guardian, tweeted earlier that the Department of Defense indicated it is not selectively blocking Guardian content, rather, automatic content filters are responsible. https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/350597454627995648 https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/350598534241861632 Indeed, an email from Van Fleet embedded in the Monterey Herald article goes on to elaborate:

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 28, 2013 241 Comments

The State seems to have suffered the most destructive of its own witnesses to date in calling Jonathan Good to the stand.Good was composed, coherent, and direct through his extensive testimony, the entirety of which was entirely consistent with the defense's theory of lawful self-defense. [caption...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2013 87 Comments
A neighbor, John Good, who witnessed the fight between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman has just devastated the State's case, testifying that he saw the fight between the two, that Trayvon was on top punching Mixed Martial Arts style, and that the scream must have come from Zimmerman because Zimmerman was on the bottom and Trayvon was faced away from the witness. https://twitter.com/LawSelfDefense/status/350618707069906945 https://twitter.com/LawSelfDefense/status/350619058535800834 https://twitter.com/LawSelfDefense/status/350618313795178496 https://twitter.com/renestutzman/status/350620377791201280 https://twitter.com/renestutzman/status/350619551010004993
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