Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Trevor Noah from the Daily Show visits Miami Beach

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He’s here all week.  Good stuff.  He explains how the news has followed him here to Miami with the bomb case (clip from YouTube here ). Here...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

SDFLA peeps in the news

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1. Cesar Sayoc will make his initial appearance today in magistrate court in the Southern District of Florida. The rumor mill says that Ja...
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Friday, October 26, 2018

Slow blogging.

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Sorry for the very slow blogging lately. I’ve been traveling and under water at work. Please send tips if you have them and I will post. Als...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

“Almost nobody knows that James Madison wrote the Constitution, they all think it was Thomas Jefferson … and he was in France!”

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That was Justice Gorsuch speaking on the public's lack of knowledge about government and the judiciary. SCOTUSblog has more : The just...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

11th Circuit affirms conviction where portion of trial occurred without the defendant and her lawyer

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The case is U.S. v. Lourdes Garcia . It is the follow up to U.S. v. Roy , where the trial proceeded without the defendant present and was a...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Rodney Smith appears before Senate committee today

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Judge Rodney Smith had his committee hearing today before the Senate.  According to CNN: The committee  considered the nominations  of Alli...
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"We do not speak for the people; we speak for the Constitution."

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That was Chief Justice Roberts last night at the University of Minnesota.  The Star Tribune has the details : Roberts' advice to lawy...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

“Brett Kavanaugh would not have been treated fairly had he been a defendant in federal criminal court”

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That’s the title of my latest op-ed in The Hill.  Please check it out.  Here’s the introduction: Throughout the confirmation process of J...
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