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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

Fare thee well!

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 29, 2012 33 Comments

Dear LI Readers, The time has come for me to bid you adieu. After 1.5 years and roughly 300 posts, I am discontinuing my role as a contributor to Legal Insurrection. Recent events suggest that I am beginning a new phase of my life: I just...

What’s going on in Maryland?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2012 86 Comments

End of day status: According to the most recent update to McCain's post, Walker was released and was charged with "incitement." I'll have to find out more specifically what the charge is, but if there has been any criminal charge, it's pretty outrageous. I cant say...

Things you may have missed this long weekend

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2012 0 Comments

Considering that it was a long holiday weekend which pretty much started at lunchtime on Friday, it was very active here. In case you missed any of them: Remembering Lt. Roslyn Schulte A strange sense of responsibility, now and then Boston Globe deep sixes article criticising Elizabeth Warren Dear Wisconsin...

Slap on wrist for prosecutors who changed history by wrongfully convicting Ted Stevens

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2012 34 Comments

I've written before about the wrongful conviction of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens just before the 2008 election, and how it changed history: So many things had to go wrong for Obamacare to evade a Senate filibuster. Arlen Specter had to switch parties. Al Franken had...

Will Mass Dems risk clearing field for Elizabeth Warren at convention Saturday?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2012 11 Comments

Saturday, June 2, is the Massachusetts Democratic Convention. Elizabeth Warren and Marisa DeFranco each need to obtain 15% of the vote at the convention to be on the September 6 primary ballot. There is a move afoot to keep DeFranco off the ballot to clear the...

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order

Seton Hall University Approves Democrat Club But Denies Turning Point USA

UC-Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Bringing His Anti-Israel Politics Into the Classroom

Harpy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2012 12 Comments

From reader @surmesa: "Good Intentions" in Bismarck, ND (Harpist, miniVan, trailer hitch, bumper damage at right…. all fits - Accept, Cope, Obey). Guessing the Kerry-Edwards sticker has been removed after jury started deliberations. Seen in Bismarck, ND, week of 5/21/2012 ...

Stuxnet-on-steroids Flame virus hits Iran

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 40 Comments

This is a little scary, particularly if it were put in the wrong hands. Via The Times of Israel: A new, unprecedented computer virus called “Flame” (or “sKyWIper”) has hit Iran, the West Bank, and other Middle Eastern locations. It is already considered one of the...

The sound of Elizabeth Warren’s silence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 16 Comments

As Politico notes, The Boston Herald has outdone The Boston Globe in reporting on Elizabeth Warren, although The Globe finally is coming around to some hard reporting after its editorial board declared the issue over weeks ago: Long before Republican Sen. Scott Brown vs. Elizabeth Warren...

Time for Jennifer Rubin to retract her Richard Grenell “EXCLUSIVE”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 21 Comments

What an ironic statement from Jennifer Rubin (emphasis mine): It is awfully tempting for pundits to use people and personal conflicts as stick figures in a polemic play reaffirming one’s preexisting impressions and biases. That’s certainly been the case in the Richard Grenell case...

Remembering Lt. Roslyn Schulte – buried on Memorial Day 2009

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 16 Comments

On this day we honor all the fallen, three of whom we have remembered here before, Johnny "Mike" Spann, Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, and U.S. Army, Spc. Dennis Weichel . We add a new person to our memory, Air Force Lt. Roslyn Schulte, of Ladue, Missouri, killed by a roadside bomb...

Battle tested

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 4 Comments

Spotted by a reader in Orange County, CA: ...

Solidarity

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 22 Comments

Congratulations to Power Line Blog on its 10th Anniversary. Scott Johnson writes: It was ten years ago this weekend — ten years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow — that John Hinderaker went to Blogger and set up Power Line. On Memorial Day that weekend...

Meghan McCain and Al Sharpton agree about crazy right-wingers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 36 Comments

Al Sharpton: Meghan McCain and Al Sharpton: Now Meghan is whining about criticism of her over the Sharpton interview, which is part of her schtick as pointed out by Noah Rothman at Mediaite , Meghan McCain Looks For Fight, Finds Many, Now Wants Sympathy? MSNBC contributor Meghan McCain appeared on...

Free Kabylie!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 5 Comments

Its case for a separate state is as good as if not better than the Palestinians since it was its own entity prior to French colonial rule. Via JPost: For Ferhat Mehenni, Israel is an ideal partner and friend for Kabylie, a geographic sliver of Algeria’s northern...

Manipulating Wikipedia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 29 Comments

In the continuing on-line war, Brett Kimberlin's Wikipedia entry which documented his history has been taken down, and get this, the excuse given is that Kimberlin was the victim of a harrassment campaign. Patrick Frey, the victim of a true harrassment campaign, has the story: I have...

Weinergate retrospective — the lying liars and their lies about Andrew Breitbart

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 15 Comments

A year ago today Anthony Weiner sent the now famous crotch shot. The story really broke on the 28th, and my initial reaction was I’m not touching this one, although I did use it as an excuse to run this clip under the heading Please Brief...

We know what Elizabeth Warren is running for, but what is she running from?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 38 Comments

I wasn't going to do an Elizabeth Warren post today. Really. But in my in-box was a link to this story at The Boston Herald, Elizabeth Warren shuts door on Herald’s inquiry (video at the link): Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren, in a sequel to an awkward on-camera encounter...