In 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a black woman, lay in bed in their Virginia home. Their marriage license, issued in the District of Columbia, hung over their bed. They were torn from that bed when a grand jury indicted them for violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws. According to the State Supreme Court of Virginia, these laws [...]
S. 132: The Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act of 2011 would establish much-needed national forensic science standards. It would allow the Department of Justice to certify forensic science labs and practitioners. It would give the DOJ authority to identify what actually qualifies as “forensic science” and establish standards regarding experts, testimony, and use of evidence. Of course, the [...]
My favorite part of Wednesday’s arguments in Arizona v. United States came in an exchange between conservative lawyer extraordinaire Paul Clement and Justice Sonia Sotomayor: JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: What happens if — this is the following call — the call to the — to the Federal Government. Yes, he’s an illegal alien. No, we don’t want to detain him. What does the [...]
“Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” I know, I was shocked when I read it too, ladies and gentlemen. It’s hard to believe that such vitriol, such unhinged rage, would be directed at [...]
Supreme Court Justice, baseball savior and Sesame Street star Sonia Sotomayor visited Penn today for the official opening of Golkin Hall, the new law school building. Your faithful-ish correspondent was in the room and got all the juicy quotes. And by juicy I mean inspiring and profound. In dedicating a new building for Penn Law today, Justice Sotomayor was following [...]
OMG, it’s finally here! No, not The Hunger Games (ok, also The Hunger Games). Arguments before the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which some clever pundit dubbed the Sicko Cases, begin Monday. They will run two hours per day for three days, for a record-setting six hours. Back when the hearing date and [...]
Anyone who spends their time writing, talking or even thinking about political campaigns likes to have a narrative that’s going somewhere. We want Harry Truman whistlestopping across the nation to pull out the slimmest of victories, or Ronald Reagan quipping “there you go again” and sending Jimmy Carter packing. In that spirit, I’d like to lodge a complaint. If the current [...]
Despite the common misconception, lemmings don’t actually throw themselves over cliffs. No, that’s an honor reserved for Republican presidential candidates. And I’m not just talking about Mitt “corporations are people”-”I like to be able to fire people”-”$10,000 bet”-”I’m not concerned about the very poor’-”Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs”-”I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners” Romney. Romney’s ability [...]
Interview by Monica Kwok Tell me about yourself. I have grown up in Dubai, UAE where I went to a British high school. At Penn, I am a freshman in the M&T Program. Currently, I am pretty ‘undecided’ about what to major in, although I am dabbling with a bit of Computer Science, which I may end up majoring in. [...]
Rush Limbaugh got into deep trouble this week when he essentially stole an old Saturday Night Live sketch. “Sandra Fluke, you ignorant slut!” Fluke really should have thought twice before painting her face to disgrace herself before House Democrats. Indeed, she was supposed to appear at Darrell Issa’s sausage-fest hearing on women’s contraceptive-coverage, at which only men spoke. Several committee members walked out [...]
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