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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2009 2 Comments
The New York Times has an article today about Sonia Sotomayor’s board membership at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEP) starting in the 1980s until she joined the federal judiciary in 1992. According to the article, Sotomayor was far from a passive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 110 Comments
MSNBC, Obama’s favorite network, reported on Obama’s trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 0 Comments
For the past several Supreme Court nominations, the hot issue has been abortion. Whether a nominee supported Roe v. Wade was the litmus test, both for conservatives and liberals. Predictably, nominees shied away from opining on whether they would vote to uphold either the outcome...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2009 25 Comments
News is breaking that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. There will be a fight over his replacement, for sure. And Arlen Specter switching may have given Republicans a trump card to block an unacceptable replacement. Everyone, including me, has been blogging about how...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2009 4 Comments
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a great intellect, but her interview with The New York Times on the issue of foreign law reveals a view of the role of the Court which is odd. The controversy surrounding citing foreign law and foreign judicial...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2009 9 Comments
Talk about the law of unintended consequences. In countries where a woman has a virtually unfettered right to choose abortion, the result is that women overwhelmingly choose to abort female fetuses. A just published study, reported in the NY Times, of Chinese population growth ties...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 7 Comments
The dispute regarding the appointment of Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, to the top legal position at the State Department is heating up with the announcement that a coalition of conservative activists is beginning to form around opposition to Harold Koh, President Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2009 1 Comment
When we think of the First Amendment to the Constitution, we think of the freedoms of religion, speech and the press. Occasionally, someone will mention the right to peaceably assemble. But for most people, the discussion ends there. Can you name which right guaranteed by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2009 7 Comments
There has been a little on-line spat brewing between Robert Stacy (the other) McCain, and one James B. Webb, which resulted in my memorable post Sitemeterenfreude (“deriving pleasure from the failure of other bloggers to generate traffic”) based on this McCain post mocking Webb’s failure...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2009 2 Comments
Another conservative secretly takes to the internet. The Commissioner: Where sports and politics collide. Ouch. But one thing, another new blog in the Ithaca area without name, rank and serial number. How can people attack you if you don’t identify yourself? Maybe that’s the point....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2009 3 Comments
The deer population in greater Ithaca, NY, is substantial. The tony Village of Cayuga Heights, adjacent to the Cornell campus and where many Cornell professors live, has a particular deer problem, and has been exploring ways of reducing the deer population. Because Cayuga Heights is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2009 2 Comments
It is always a little dangerous when law professors opine on areas of law with which they have little familiarity. That is why I have stayed away from the issue of whether Israel must use “proportionate” force against Hamas. Although I suspected that the term...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2009 0 Comments
Yesterday I posted Support Sanjay Gupta Since Michael Moore Hates Him. A nice, tight little piece joking how the mere fact that Michael Moore hates Sanjay Gupta is enough for me to support Gupta for Surgeon General. A little tongue-in-cheek humor trying to make a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2008 1 Comment
Legal Insurrection Blog started on October 12, 2008, with what is still my favorite post, Obama is Door No. 2. In those first days, readership consisted of me, a few relatives, a couple of neighbors, and some friends of relatives. Then a handful of other...
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