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13 Dec 2020, 9:10 am
In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a 1946 Christmas-movie classic -- directed by Frank Capra and starring the incomparable James Stewart -- when the protagonist wishes he had never been born, an angel is sent to Earth to grant his wish.In “It’s a Wondoughful Life,” a new animated short -- written and directed by Jana Forkel, a 22-year-old screenwriter and grad student -- a clump of pizza dough comes to life, and tries to escape its fate ... of getting… [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 8:00 pm
NY Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D) said during a press briefing that, “it’s not so much a matter of if, it’s a matter of when and it’s a matter of how. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 12:30 pm by Anna Salvatore
In a short video, one of the gunmen claimed that they attacked the farmers in retribution for seizing Boko Haram fighters and bringing them to the police. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 6 Lawmakers in 5 Days: New COVID-19 infections put spotlight on Congress’ loose guidelines USA Today – Christal Hayes | Published: 11/18/2020 As rampant nationwide coronavirus spikes force states to reexamine reopening efforts, Congress is still struggling to maneuver around the pandemic as it encroaches on legislative business and endangers its members. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 4:07 am by Stewart Baker
(For those who want more of Charles's thinking on the topic, see this short piece.) [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 11:52 am
This short essay on the semiotics of “consent” considers the manifestation of the concept as object, as symbol, and as a cluster of political interpretation that itself contains within it the Janus faced morality of political correctness. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 7:55 am by Patricia Hughes
Anneke Smit (Director, Centre for Cities) and students Hana Syed, Aucha Stewart, Terra Duchene, and Michael Fazzari, which analyses the response of municipalities across Canada in the early days of the pandemic and proposes a way forward, not only with respect to municipalities, but also provincial legislation related to public health emergencies. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 11:41 pm by Stewart Baker
(Short version: Google has a nearly 50-50 chance of winning, and the Court has about the same chance of producing a respectable opinion. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 2:58 pm by Broden Mickelsen
Wiggin was found to have shorted 40,000 shares of his own bank’s stock. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 7:21 am by Scott Bomboy
” The last Supreme Court recess appointments were during the Eisenhower era: Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Potter Stewart. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 2:41 pm by Stewart Baker
In short, the only FISA application that targeted a partisan opponent of the administration was corrupted by numerous material omissions and errors and at least one false statement, one of the most influential investigators was a voluble Trump hater, and others may have harbored a bias against Trump that they were too prudent to articulate. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 4:28 pm by Kenneth Propp, Peter Swire
Stewart Baker, a regular Lawfare contributor, termed it a “mix of judicial imperialism and Eurocentric hypocrisy. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 12:36 pm by Matt Gluck
A bystander video shows several New York Police Department officers dressed in shorts and t-shirts pulling a protester into an unmarked van on Tuesday evening, according to the Post. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 12:54 pm by Stewart Baker
In short hits, I mock the Justice Department spokesperson who claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in "a misguided effort to evade detection" when she wrapped her cellphone in tin foil. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 6:13 pm by Law and Policy Lab
Garrett Jensen, a leading member of the research team, explained that the complexities of launching a voting by mail operation on short notice could increase mistakes by the elections office in accurately counting voters’ ballots. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 9:26 am by Aditi Shah
On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, an asylum-seeker, does not have a constitutional right to habeas corpus review in federal court of his claims that the government violated his constitutional, statutory and regulatory rights in issuing an order for his expedited removal. [read post]