It comes to this...
In light of the recent hubbub about the NSA having access to pretty much all your communications, the first question seems to be not "How can they do that?" because let's face it...
A Badly Mismatched Battle of the Experts We covered yesterday’s testimony of the state witnesses at length here, so no point in going over that again. Today we're going to take a deep dive into the expert witness testimony of two more of the defense expert...
In light of "questions" by both Lindsay Graham (since clarified) and Dick Durbin as to whether bloggers are entitled to First Amendment protection, I thought these two videos might be worth watching. Floyd Abrams (btw, father of Dan Abrams, television legal commentator and proprietor of Mediaite...
I don't think we've ever invited Bob Shrum to the card game. After reading this, you'll probably wish I never had. In mid-May Shrum wrote at The Daily Beast, The Obama Scandals Are Desperate Measures by the GOP (emphasis added): Conservatives are back at it again because the GOP lacks...
But the protesters are expressing steadfast solidarity and refusing to buckle in the face of extreme force and Erdogan's insults. As they band together and grow in number, they've adopted something of a catchphrase, which brings us to the term "çapuling," alternatively spelled in many social media postings as the anglicized "capuling" or "chappuling."Turkish citizens crowd-funded an advertisement which ran in The NY Times:The Turkish word "çapul" has many meanings, including pillage; rage; plunder and booty to spoil; foray; root; and maraud, according to the Tureng online translation service. It's unclear exactly where the term originated, but it might be a reference to Erdogan's description of protesters as "looters." The accompanying "Everyday I'm Çapuling!" video is likely designed to disarm the word by showing protesters engaged in non-looting activities that aim to counter his use of the loaded term.... However it got started, the term is taking off in a major way. Twitter users have spread the phrase via hashtags, including #çapuling, #capuling, #chappuling, #everydayimcapuling, #everydayimçapuling and more, and the video has gotten so many views in such a short time that it has triggered YouTube's hit-count-stopping feature.
The protests continue tonight in Turkey against the abusive rule of Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, someone whose dangerous bluster is well-known to Legal Insurrection readers.
Well, he was right about hoping Obama failed. Via The Other McCain (text here): ...
I guess you could put me in the "concerned" category on the various -- and disputed -- accounts of how the government data mines phone records and obtains email and search information from internet companies. On the one hand, I'm concerned about those who have bad...
Everything is harassment: The federal government has overreached on campus sexual harassment rules Literature Prof lampoons new federal government sexual harassment policy Such as: Cambridge Univ. law students stunned by graphic sexual questions on exam Co-eds filmed naked in shower in co-ed dorm at Middle Tenn. State NYU prof says fat...
ABC Speech Expert Suggests Zimmerman the Screamer "by significant margin"...
I’ve answered this question before. He knows, he knows. From Diana: Professor Jacobson, I enjoy your blog immensely and I’m glad that Cornell Law students get to hear at least one conservative viewpoint from the faculty. When I was there in the mid 1990s, we had Jonathan Macey...
Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati in July 2010 alerted a broad group of Washington IRS officials to the heightened scrutiny being given conservative groups, according to an interview...
Not someone you would expect to accuse others of crying wolf on privacy. Via Noah Rothman at Mediaite: Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University, defended the Obama administration on Friday and excoriated those in the media who he says are disseminating a number of half-truths...
46 years ago today using the Christian calendar. We celebrated the event on May 8 using the Hebrew calendar, 46 Hebrew calendar years ago Jerusalem was reunited: The abuse of Jewish historical and religious sites ended: “It felt like Messiah had come,” says Avigail Shlesinger, 81, of the...
Seventeen years ago, Charles Lane wrote A Man of Good Intentions about then Secretary of State Warren Christopher being kept waiting by Hafez al-Assad, father of the current Syrian President: And Assad went out of his way to humiliate Christopher, the American messenger of land-for-peace, when he...
"Christians have been the ones who’ve had to go underground and in the closet"...
Yesterday marked the start of the Zimmerman case Frye hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to determine whether expert testimony will be allowed at trial on the identity of the person screaming in the background of the Witness #11 911 call. The relevant portion of...
