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From the Irony is Ironic Files

It can also be a tad perverted:

A court clerk who watched hardcore pornography during a rape trial ‘because he was bored’ was caught looking at the explicit material right under the nose of the judge.

Debasish Majumder, 54, accessed the obscene images while the victim gave her harrowing evidence at Inner London Crown [...]

Movement of the People

Mark Steyn has a great column today up at NRO called “Exodus”:

As far as the media were concerned, the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse and a black teenager in Florida were the same story — literally: Angry white male opens fire on “the other,” his deeply ingrained racism inflamed by the tide of [...]

The Mandarins at GSA

Our tax dollars at work…. From ABCNews Political Punch blog:

The government official on the frontlines of the scandal involving a wasteful government conference, U.S. General Services Administration regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely, will invoke his 5th amendment right against self-incrimination, his lawyer Preston Burton tells ABC News. He won’t comment on the $822,751 conference, [...]

It’s Not About Volunteerism

Despite Tax Rate, No Plans For Obama to Chip In $$, http://fxn.ws/IslfxZ

You said a mouthful David Axelrod. A mouthful.

Bazinga!

Despite Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s failure, one can use his genius in physics to prevail in traffic court.

Dmirti Krioukov was issued a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. Instead of paying the ticket or going to traffic school, the physicist fought the citation by writing a four-page paper explaining [...]

Secret Servicing Part Deux

http://yhoo.it/IJSNfl

It doesn’t look so good and now some military folks are involved as well. And while “boys will boys”  used to work the very close links to transnational organized crime and human trafficking — including the very real possibility that underage girls are involved make this a severe lapse in moral, legal, and ethical [...]

It Was a Secret Servicing.

12 U.S. Secret Service agents have been sent home following allegations involving prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia as they were preparing for Obama’s visit this weekend for an economic summit.

The agents had been sent to the country to prepare security measures ahead of the president’s arrival. The Secret Service on Friday replaced the entire [...]

Are You Not Entertained?

Apparently the Italian government is not entertained at not getting its cut of these men’s livelihood — I mean in addition to the taxes they already pay on their income of course.

Roman centurions, complete with red skirts, tunics, armor, swords and feathered helmets, fought in front of the Colosseum. But this time it [...]

Dershowitz on Zimmerman PC Affidavit

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Don’t worry the Tingler doesn’t make an appearance… this is about as balanced and sober discussion as I’ve ever heard on MSNBC.

Holder Gets Punked

It’s kinda hard to make someone so obviously dense look even more dense — James O’Keefe deserves a PulitzbelOscar for this one.

Kudos good sir. Well=played.

Silent Justice

Clarence Thomas haters and admirers love, deride, or don’t know what to make of his famed silence during Supreme Court oral arguments. I realize in today’s post-Oprah Psychobabylon nothing is ever as it seems — there simply must be another reason. My preference is to take things mostly at face value unless I have [...]

Mars Does Not Need Moms Like This

I know this is just a new twist on an old crime (poisoning), but if this case plays out as the prosecution thinks — it’s a new one on me in terms of the weapon of choice (allegedly):

A Long Island woman accused of feeding M&Ms that contained traces of peanuts to her disabled [...]

Obama’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do!

Not only is our current White House resident an empty suit — he has no sense of decorum or class. Here’s the Dipshit in Chief on the Health care case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court:

OK… so there are other healthcare cases making their way through the court as well. One of [...]

Five For the Show

The U.S. Supreme Court just released it’s decision upholding the right of correctional institutions to strip search inmates — even for minor violations. From The Washington Post:

The court’s conservatives ruled against a New Jersey man who was strip-searched after being mistakenly arrested on an outstanding warrant.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority [...]

Endless Litigation, Heartache, and a Return to Poverty…

What are three things winning the lottery often brings?

Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald’s into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.

Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought [...]

Notice Me!

The practice of law — as any profession — can be and often is dry and tedious. Motions upon motions multiplied by meetings and hearings…. How to deal with the tedium? Inside many lawyers is an author waiting to get out. Believe it or not — every so often lawyers let their literary freak flag [...]

Health Care case — Day 2

Audio and transcripts are here at the Supreme Court’s website.

Take the time and listen… it’s important stuff — as teacherly as that sounds it is nonetheless true. This may be the most important case since Dred Scott in terms of direct impact on all Americans.

Initial recaps from SCOTUSBlog here.

It sounds like Kennedy [...]

Trope A Dope (BUMPED AND UPDATED)

h/t: Jim Treacher’s Facebook page

From today’s (3/26/2012) Orlando Sentinel:

With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George Zimmerman and slammed his head into the sidewalk, leaving him bloody and battered, law enforcement authorities have [...]

Healthcare Cases at SCOTUS

Audio of today’s oral argument:

Audio of today’s argument : SCOTUSblog.

h/t and courtesy the invaluable SCOTUSBlog

In Class With Floyd — Prisons

I’m teaching a course in comparative criminal justice systems and we’ve been discussing prisons and corrections this week. The other day we talked about Japanese prisons… today the piece de resistance… Norway’s brutal prison regime.

The commentary and comparison in the video to America’s system is simple-minded quite frankly, but you get the hint [...]