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Harvard Program Caught Trying To Hide Discriminatory Language After Complaint Filed By Equal Protection Project

Homan: DHS Investigating Ilhan Omar Marrying Alleged Brother for Visa Fraud

UVA Law Prof Describes Outrageous Behavior From Colleagues Over Case He Argued Before SCOTUS

I had no idea who Aaron Swartz was, but his death moves me

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2013 34 Comments

I don't think I knew who Aaron Swartz was, but this announcement of his death moved me: Aaron Swartz, online activist and founder of Infogami, a service later merged with Reddit, has committed suicide in New York City on Jan. 11, the Tech reports. The news was revealed...

8001

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2013 8 Comments

This is the 8001st post at Legal Insurrection. The 8000th post, not by design but by happenstance, was “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” Week at College Insurrection. So maybe this is another good opportunity to say thanks to the many supporters since October 12,...

“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2013 1 Comment

In case you missed it. The Good Prof. Glenn Reynolds – How Home Schooling Threatens Monopoly Education History Prof. Looks at How Liberals Took-over American Colleges Florida Governor Leads Charge to Cut Costs at State Universities North Dakota colleges benefit from “Big Oil” Cornell Student Questions Need for “Africana Studies” Win –...

David Gregory and wife knew D.C. Attorney General

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 89 Comments

District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin Nathan issued a lengthy letter today explaining the decision not to prosecute David Gregory “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law," despite rejecting NBC's claims of a subjective misunderstanding of the law, and despite vowing vigorous...

David Gregory will not be prosecuted

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 106 Comments

Gregory goes free "despite the clarity of the violation of this important law"...

Martin University Terminates Entire Staff Due to Financial Crisis

School Board in Maine Upholds Transgender Team and Bathroom Ban

MIT Blames Closure of Two Libraries on New Endowment Tax

Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution

Labor Unions Fighting Affordable Housing Project for UC-Berkeley Students

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

All purpose, pre-written, generic MSM announcement of David Gregory (non) prosecution

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 4 Comments

I have been known to prepare all-purpose, pre-written, generic MSM-style announcements on the cusp of an important decision. So here's what I have pre-drafted for the David Gregory decision which will be released later this afternoon: In a decision sure to have profound implications for the national...

Decision whether to charge David Gregory will be announced later today

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 5 Comments

I just got off the phone with Ted Gest, the press spokesman for the District of Columbia Attorney General. Gest confirmed that the decision whether to charge David Gregory with violating D.C.'s gun law will be announced by the Attorney General later this afternoon via email. We...

Come on West Virginia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 13 Comments

Jay Rockefeller is retiring, don't make another Manchin mistake in 2014, via The Hill: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for reelection in 2014, giving Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in a state that's grown increasingly red in recent years. “As I...

The best and the brightest

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 7 Comments

but not necessarily the most forthright. The second term Obama nominees are a good indicator that it will be four years of aggressive agitating by Obama. We should fight every objectionable nominee. ...

Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page ethnically cleansed, again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2013 36 Comments

Meanwhile, Warren listed elsewhere on Wikipedia as "Multiracial" "White Native American"...

Miles apart: Walker to cut income tax, Rahm to ban guns

Posted by Anne Segal on January 11, 2013 18 Comments

Just a little more than an hour apart, but world's away in leadership are Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker. Thursday, Walker announced today that the budget he will sign this summer will include "significant" cuts to the income tax rates....