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When courts apply 1+1=3 to the Constitution.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

The Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) When I applied to law school, I was excited about the prospect of overlapping my then-future law career with my obsession with human rights work. I expected that part of my law studies would involve learning the language of the oppressive enemy, so that I could more successfully battle that enemy.  That enemy turned out not to be a person or group of persons intending on harming others, but instead was a huge tumor on the body of law often developed by well-meaning people at best, and those wanting to protect their own and some of the worst power, privilege, and prejudices at worst. This dose of healthy cynicism helped me keep my eyes on the prize of learning critical legal skills and information in law school, to get my law degree and to pass the bar, and to land where I could do good with my law license...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).