Law Students

"Court officials unapologetic about gold leaf"
"Court officials unapologetic about gold leaf": Monday's edition of The Providence (R.I.) Journal contains an article that begins, "The state judiciary last week defended the use of 23-karat gold leaf in a renovation outside state Supreme Court offices in the Licht Judicial Complex...

Canada: Put your money on a victory for polygamy
"The problem, as Queen?s University law professor Beverley Baines has pointed out, is that the section began historically as an unapologetic religious prejudice, rather than as a limit on the practice of religion ordained for the purpose of some secular social objective ...

Carville Doesn't Apologize
If you're going to make an overly dramatic statement in this campaign, there's only one reaction that's genuine -- stay with it.And Carville does, re his Judas comment directed at Bill Richardson's betrayal of Hillary by endorsing Obama:But Carville, a CNN commentator, was unapologetic, telling CNN he knew the impact his words would have...

Cheney's Insane Defense
Watching the Dick Cheney farewell tour of interviews is becoming downright surreal. He steadfastly refuses to admit that the Bush administration has ever done anything wrong. In fact, the closest he's come to saying they've made a mistake is to argue that Bush should not have fired Rumsfeld because Rumsfeld was doing a great job...

And now for something completely different.
Not! Monty Python couldn't make up this outrageous outrageous story. A judge in Ohio appointed a public defender to handle an assault case and insisted that the public defender go to trial on two-day's notice...

Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro. She's important!
And she's certainly not the stereotypical "single mother" she's stood for in Obama campaign rhetoric.ADDED Jezebel comments:The Times posits that her legacy is apparent in Obama's "self-assurance and drive, his boundary bridging, even his apparent comfort with strong women...