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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2012 17 Comments

Via Mass GOP, Massachusetts Republican Party Launches New Web Video:  “FRAUDSTER” As the questions over Elizabeth Warren’s false claims to Native American ancestry continue to swirl, the Massachusetts Republican Party today launched a new web video called “Fraudster.” The video documents Warren’s shifting story and the bizarre excuses...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 18 Comments

Keep calling attention to this video, over and over again, as part of an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, via Politico: The Massachusetts Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, alleging that Brown has used official resources for campaign purposes. The complaint focuses on footage of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2012 29 Comments

Elizabeth Warren's narrative of being a descendant of the Cherokee people emboldened Warren not only to consider herself Native American, but also to identify with the most victimized of the victimized. One doesn't have to be a scholar of Native American history to know of the Trail of Tears. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 08, 2012 102 Comments

Throughout her career and political campaign, Elizabeth Warren has found victims everywhere she looked, including when she looked in the mirror and saw an alleged descendant of one of the most historically victimized groups, Native Americans. In what may be the ultimate and cruelest irony, not only is it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2012 52 Comments

Much of the discussion in the media regarding Elizabeth Warren is about whether it is appropriate for someone who is 1/32 Cherokee to claim Native American status. There are numerous articles about what it means to be Native American, and who gets to define ethnicity.  That...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2012 46 Comments

I'm quoted in a Poltico story today about Elizabeth Warren: “If she is 1/32nd Native American … is it really appropriate to list yourself  that way and knowing you will therefore be listed as a minority law professor?” asked William Jacobson, associate clinical professor of Cornell...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2012 30 Comments

Today seems to be a turning point in the Elizabeth Warren-Cherokee story.  Her shifting and implausible explanations have made her a laughing-stock, never good for any candidate.  Warren has lost the argument, and her credibility. Her story about why she listed herself as a minority on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2012 70 Comments

Could it get any worse? When Elizabeth Warren first acknowledged that she had represented herself to be Native American when filling out forms for the Association of American Law Schools directories in the mid-80s through mid-90s, Warren based her claim entirely on family "lore." A couple of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2012 27 Comments

There is an active effort by Elizabeth Warren's campaign to distract from the real issue regarding Warren's claim of Native American status during the mid-80s to mid-90s, when she was moving from one law school to another up the food chain until she reached Harvard...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 27 Comments

The Elizabeth Warren story is not about whether she is 1/32nd Cherokee. Questions persist as to why Warren listed herself as Native American, a fact as to which she had no proof until yesterday, only in a publication almost exclusively used by other law professors and Deans during a time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2012 40 Comments

Native American? I doubt this will move many votes in the Massachusetts Senate race, but it does illustrate how pursuit of “diversity” in higher education can drive institutions to make rather implausible claims: Elizabeth Warren’s avowed Native American heritage — which the candidate rarely if ever discusses...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2012 22 Comments

Sign of trouble No. 1:  Warren is running to the left of Obama on gay marriage and portraying herself as heroic, apparently, per Greg Sargent (via Instapundit): In an interesting move, Elizabeth Warren comes out and calls on the leader of the Democratic Party to complete...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2011 19 Comments

You owe us, and we want our fair share of all that money you are raising online. You built a campaign out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your message to market on bandwidth the  rest of us paid for; you hired workers...

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