Timing is everything in politics, and Elizabeth Warren received a huge break when a devastating Washington Post investigation of Warren’s legal practice when she was a law professor was published on Monday, July 15, 2019. That was the day after Trump’s tweets telling four congresswomen “go back and help fix the...

The Gibson’s Bakery massive verdict against Oberlin College has sparked incredible reader excitement, and brought many new readers to Legal Insurrection.

I’ve spent the last week trying to absorb what is happening. The reactions to the compensatory and punitive damage verdicts remind me of only a few times in Legal Insurrection’s almost...

Elizabeth Warren had a reputation in academia as a climber with sharp elbows, said New York Magazine in 2011 (“A Saint with Sharp Elbows), and The Boston Globe in 2012:

Behind the scenes, some of her peers bristled at her ascent, viewing her as smart and capable but also as a climber...

If you missed the debate between Scott Brown and Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire last night, consider yourself lucky.

Brown did very well despite the tremendous odds stacked against him. The debate was sponsored in part by the University of New Hampshire and moderated by the not-at-all biased Chuck Todd of...

We reported earlier that Scott Brown was in a dead heat with Jean Shaheen, a surge from prior polling.

Could this be a repeat of his 2010 victory over Martha Coakley?

From Diane:

Don’t know if Brown is the answer but this is the question.

In Exeter nh just at border of Stratham.

According to a new poll from WMUR in New Hampshire on the race for US senate, Republican Scott Brown has gained a tremendous amount of ground on incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.

Joshua Miller of the Boston Globe recently reported:

Scott Brown, Jeanne Shaheen in dead heat

The US Senate race in New Hampshire has...

The senate race between Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen and Republican challenger Scott Brown is going to be a pricey one. Some are even speculating that it could set records.

Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald reports…

...

Much speculation today, apparently confirmed by Fox News:

Fox News has confirmed that former senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has told the network that he will file an exploratory committee for the New Hampshire Senate race.

His contract with the network has been canceled, as is standard practice for candidates for office.

“Scott Brown’s contributor...

Scott Brown announced yesterday that he decided not to run for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.  While I would have preferred he run, I can’t say I blame him.

After all, Massachusetts elected Elizabeth Warren, someone who demonstrably misrepresented her ethnicity for employment purposes both in pr...

A follow up to Hopeless in Rhode Island.

Boston talk radio host Michael Graham writes, DON’T Run, Scott, Don’t Run!

Actually, I have no problem with Scott Brown running in the special election we all expect to have in a few months after John Kerry becomes Secretary of State (could he do any...

John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say:

Sources tell ABC News that President Obama has decided that he will nominate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to be secretary of state.

If confirmed, which he will be (emphasis mine):

If nominated by the president and confirmed by his colleagues in the Senate,...

Kimball Political Consulting, a Republican leaning firm but one which has not been overly generous in its results for Scott Brown to date (it had Warren up 2 in mid-October), finds Brown up by 2 in a poll just released:

In the past two days two wildly differing polls have been released, one showing Scott Brown up 2, the other showing Elizabeth Warren up by 7. Polling from last week showed Warren ahead by 5.

AP via Boston Globe reports:

A new poll is giving an edge to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in...

The Boston Globe decided to run profiles of Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren this week on the eve of the hotly contested election.

The Globe ran a glowing puff piece about Warren, a tribute to Warren’s progress in overcoming obstacles real and imagined (mostly imagined, as anyone paying attention knows).  The write-up featured a...

No one expresses feigned outrage quite as well as Elizabeth Warren.

Warren, who assumed a false Native American identity for employment purposes while climbing the law professor ladder and explained it away by playing on ethnic stereotypes of Indians having high cheekbones, is upset.

Scott Brown said he suspected that some of the people...

First it was union members being fined for not picketing for Elizabeth Warren.  Then it was Warren supporters taunting a gay staffer with Scott Brown’s campaign.

Now black supporters of Scott Brown have received the sort of racially based taunts that we have seen directed in the past at Republicans and Tea Party...

I had the pleasue of spending a full hour on the radio with Dan Rea at WBZ 1030 (CBS Boston), a true superstation that covers all of New England and into New York.

Dan made a point during the hour that character matters, and that Elizabeth Warren’s character is a legitimate issue.

I had a...