Genocide is one thing, but in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, this prosecution strikes me as one making a scapegoat of a solitary solider in order to offer a patina of legitimacy to the atrocious inhumanity of what’s really going on over there.
We need more judges like Stanley Birch, judges who have the courage to tell it like it is and not base decisions on political expediency.
Johnnie Cochran, O.J. Simpson’s lead trial lawyer in the infamous L.A./Brentwood murder trial, died quietly last night of an inoperable brain tumor. His closing statement in 1995 for O.J. was one of the best performances — and by far the best televised closing argument — by a trial lawyer ever.
Today was a very big day for technology at the U.S. Supreme Court, with two hugely significant cases being argued.
The U.S. Congress this evening made a frantic, last-ditch effort to keep Terri Schiavo alive, passing measures that call for the federal courts to prevent the removal of feeding tubes from the brain-damaged woman in Florida.
Everyone remembers being in high school and rebelling against authority, including the fascists who run such institutions with their hall passes and dance chaperones. Apparently, today things are even more restrictive, including breathalyzer tests administered routinely during the school day.
Some 20 years after she became the first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor’s assumption of the presiding role at the Court for a day was not treated as anything extraordinary.
It’s a good thing juries decide these cases, because Jacko’s “flu-like symptoms” hardly justify a week-long delay in jury selection in his child abuse trial.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court — without any dissent, even from the most conservative justices — refused to accept review of the Massachusetts decision requiring state officials there to recognize same-sex marriage
It was bad enough with Amazon’s “one-click” patent, but now we’ve got insurance patents, order-processing patents and other patents for what are not inventions, but just ideas. Of course ideas are creative and deserve protection, but they should not be patentable.