... apparently it will be closed all week.
Here's what it looked like a few days ago:
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... apparently it will be closed all week.
Here's what it looked like a few days ago:
…due to flooding and rain.
Can’t wait for that new courthouse!
I’m told judges and staff are all working from home and hearings are proceeding via Zoom.
Stay dry!
It's a question that Ben Ferencz used to ask his children around the dinner table every night. Ferencz, who was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, died last Friday in his sleep. He was 103. He had moved permanently to South Florida in 2019.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel, along with countless other media outlets, are covering Ferencz's life. He was only 27 years old when he prosecuted 22 members of the Nazi killing squads. The beginning of his opening statement, which the paper excerpts, is powerful.
“It is with sorrow and with hope that we here disclose the deliberate slaughter of more than a million innocent and defenseless men, women, and children. This was the tragic fulfillment of a program of intolerance and arrogance. Vengeance is not our goal, nor do we seek merely a just retribution. We ask this Court to affirm by international penal action man’s right to live in peace and dignity regardless of his race or creed. The case we present is a plea of humanity to law.”
Ferencz is considered one of the founding fathers of the International Criminal Court. Remarkably, in 2011, he delivered the closing statement for the prosecution at the Court's first trial. What a legacy.
Here's the slide everyone is talking about, which was apparently presented to associates at Paul Hastings. As you can imagine, it's gotten quite a bit of criticism.
By John R. Byrne:
Judge Singhal just granted summary judgment to CNN in a high-profile defamation case. The Plaintiff, Alan Dershowitz, alleged that a host of CNN anchors and commentators misconstrued statements he made to the US Senate during President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Dershowitz Order by John Byrne on Scribd
Well, everyone is talking about Trump and whether that's a political prosecution. Take a look at this arrest last night of Nikki Fried and Lauren Book. What happened to the first amendment?
Yikes.Police just handcuffed & arrested protesters including @NikkiFried & @LeaderBookFL pic.twitter.com/NCdqHJxmcx
— Gary Fineout (@fineout) April 4, 2023