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Right wing smear machine to blame for Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee problem (again)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2012 44 Comments

Hey, you know who is to blame for Elizabeth Warren’s false claim to be Cherokee? Definitely not Elizabeth Warren if you are a defender of Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts. No, this is far deeper and vaster than Elizabeth Warren, it goes well into the world of “right wing extremists”...

Elizabeth Warren failed the test for “truthfulness and credibility and honesty”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 25 Comments

Scott Brown hasn’t said much himself about Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee fraud. But now he’s going there, and good for him. With each passing day that Warren clings to her claim to be Native American, Cherokee, a minority and a “woman of color,” she reveals a...

Were charges of “scientific misconduct” against Elizabeth Warren ever fully vetted?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 11, 2012 27 Comments

On June 4, I wrote that The vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s academic background begins. That post featured a scathing law review article by a well-regarded Rutgers law professor in 1990-1991 who accused Elizabeth Warren and her co-authors of a book on bankruptcy of a wide range of academic...

Warren v. Brown is the new Wisconsin Recall

Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2012 61 Comments

If you love Daily Kos, Van Jones and Keith Ellison, you’ll love Elizabeth Warren. If you love public employee unions running the state, you’ll love Elizabeth Warren. If you loved the Wisconsin Recall, you’ll love Elizabeth Warren. The big union and Hollywood money and progressive media machine...

Elizabeth Warren dodges questions at Netroots Nation – security guards block me

Posted by Anne Segal on June 08, 2012 41 Comments

I returned to Netroots Nation today. At lunch, I went to listen to Elizabeth Warren’s speech and panel discussion. I wanted to ask her a few questions after her panel, which was entitled “2012 and the War on (and for) Women.” Specifically, I wanted to ask...

Will Elizabeth Warren be the straw that breaks affirmative action’s back? Black ministers upset.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2012 47 Comments

Put aside the pros and cons of affirmative action. Assume that at some level you support affirmative action. Those who support affirmative action should be the most upset with Elizabeth Warren’s fake “woman of color” and “minority law teacher” status based on her own self-reporting...

Elizabeth Warren: Exposing me for who I am means you’re nasty

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2012 40 Comments

Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic Party nominee for Senate, after party leaders twisted arms to make sure Marisa DeFranco did not make the primary ballot. Warren may have become the nominee, but she’s still not Native American. Whereas prior to May 2012 one might have said Warren simply...

It’s Elizabeth Warren’s and Harvard’s federal filings, stupid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 31, 2012 50 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has played hard to get on the issue of her supposed Cherokee ancestry. Warren only admits to information after someone has the documents to prove her story wrong, and then her story changes. She originally denied having any idea why Harvard touted her...

Hundreds of Cherokees form new group to challenge Elizabeth Warren

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2012 35 Comments

A new group of over 150 Cherokees and growing has formed with the purpose of forcing Elizabeth Warren to give up her false claim to Cherokee heritage. The group has a new blog, Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren, and corresponding Facebook page: Mission Statement Cherokees Demand Truth...

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...

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...

Boston Globe deep sixes article criticising Elizabeth Warren, substitutes Menino defense of Warren

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2012 29 Comments

A number of readers forwarded me the link to an article about Scott Brown’s demand that Harvard correct its filings with the Labor Department to remove Elizabeth Warren’s listing as a Native American. Reader Tom wrote: Professor: Senator Brown’s now taking on HARVARD in his...

We need to be more careful about Elizabeth Warren than she is about being Cherokee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2012 20 Comments

There is zero evidence that Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee, despite her having touted such heritage at various times, and she stands by that claim in the face of contrary evidence. Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, and to some extent your humble correspondent, have laid Warren’s...

Bad News for Biden Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 11, 2024 4 Comments

All the news you may have missed.

Former Artist-in-Residence at U. Wisconsin Who Claimed to be Native American is Actually White

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 07, 2023 2 Comments

"Moving forward, my efforts will be towards reducing harm by following the directions provided by Native community members and community-specified proxies."

Washington State Supreme Court Imposes Different Standards On Police “Seizures” For “BIPOC” and Whites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2022 105 Comments

Two identical factual circumstances of a police encounter maybe result in different judicial results depending on whether the person is BIPOC or not-BIPOC (i.e. white). This is a good example of how social justice and Critical Race Theory verbiage and language accelerated by the BLM protests of 2020 have penetrated the judiciary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BkbDNPXy0

DOJ Plays Politics With Swalwell “January 6” Claims Against Congressman Mo Brooks

Posted by Ameer Benno on August 05, 2021 50 Comments

At his confirmation hearing for Attorney General, Merrick Garland pledged to “protect the independence of the Department [of Justice] from partisan influence in law enforcement.” Instead he has politically turbocharged it.

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