So the Department of Justice has finally decided to stop wasting its time chasing escort service owners and that clown governor (oh, that's right - they're still after HIM) and moved on to really important matters: prosecuting Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about whether ...
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Naomi Campbell: War Criminal?
Seems a little absurd, no? But apparently prosecutors are considering looking into whether Ms. Campbell violated South African law by possessing - just possessing - so-called "blood diamonds". It seems that in September of 1997, while visiting South Africa, Ms. Campbell was given 3 stones that ...
Episcopal Church Pokes Itself In The Eye Again
Like Lord Voldemort, the embodiment of pure evil from the Harry Potter stories, Charles Bennison, the once defrocked Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, is back. The Episcopal Church's top appelate tribunal, the Court of Review of the Trial of a Bishop, last week issued an opinion that in effect exonerated Bennison of charges that he ...
Short Stay for Lohan
According to one of the British tabloids, looks like Lindsay Lohan will be released from jail soon, having likely served not more than 9 days of a 90 day sentence imposed last week for her for violations of the terms of the probation she was serving for various prior offenses, including charges for drunk ...
Free Jeff Skilling
The United States Supreme Court took a substantial step toward doing just that yesterday when it vacated Skilling's conviction under the federal "honest services" wire fraud statute, and remanded the case to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether Skilling's conviction on other charges ...
Kagan’s Notes on Bush v. Gore Raise Significant Questions
According to the Wall Street Journal, among the documents that the Senate Judiciary Committee has posted relating to the Kagan nomination are handwritten notes that the nominee made for a speech she was to deliver to Princeton University alumni in 2003. The notes, according to the Journal's account of their contents, reveal Kagan's misgivings ...
I Didn’t Read the Documents, But That’s OK, File the Lawsuit Anyway
As I've been following the semi-furor over Eric Holder's revelation before a Congressional committee that he hasn't read the Arizona immigration statute - a law that he'd earlier suggested he'd have the government sue to invalidate - I've been wondering how such an approach would work in private practice. In that context, not having read ...
Philadelphia’s Fiscal Mess
In a great post on Philadelphia Magazine's Philly Post, former news anchor Larry Mendte asks why there isn;t more outrage here in Philadelphia in response to the significant tax increases that City Council has dumped on us in what will surely be a losing effort to try and shore up the City's woeful ...
Obama’s Disingenuous Attack on “Judicial Activism”
One of the longest running debates in American politics - and one on which the conservative side has fairly consistently prevailed - involves the proper role of the courts in our Constitutional system. Polls have consistently shown that a solid majority of the electorate agrees that the courts should limit themselves toppling the law, and ...
Its Not Business, Its Personal
During last night's installment of celebrity apprentice, that's what Sharon Osborne told Trump when he asked her why she was so emotional during the boardroom confrontation at the end of which Osborne was fired. It happens that the charity for which Osborne was playing was very personal to her, and thus her plea that it ...