Aaron Elstein: Trump qualified for a tax break for New Yorkers making $500K or less
Alternatively, is he a welfare cheat?
Author: Burt Likko
Romney Condemns Trump
A grownup finally steps in. Bear in mind, this is an argument aimed at Republicans.
Full text and video.
Predicting Judicial Greatness in A Theoretical Justice Barack Obama
Were a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton to nominate him to the Supreme Court, would Barack Obama’s service as President be reason to foresee that he’d become one of the great Justices on the Supreme Court? What about his lack of prior judicial experience or his lack of scholarly publications?
The Destatuification of a Justice
Or, an opportunity to meditate upon our ambiguous legal history and its uncomfortable place in contemporary political life.
Candidate Question Time
Let’s be sure to not forget Richard Nixon while we’re having all our political fun.
Class Calls McDonald’s Cheese Sticks a Fraud – Courthouse News Service
McDonald’s defrauds customers by claiming its Mozzarella sticks are “100 percent real cheese,” because it uses starch as a cheap filler to add weight, a class action claims in Federal Court.
Lead plaintiff Chris Howe sued McDonald’s Corp. on behalf of customers in 42 states and the District of Columbia. He accuses the company of unfair and fraudulent competition, false advertising, and breach of warranty – the last under the laws of all 42 states and the District of Columbia.
From: Courthouse News Service
Name That Team!
If the Oilers can become the Titans and the SuperSonics can become the Thunder, what of the newest team to play (again) in the City of the Angels!
Another Post I Wish I’d Written
Ken White fisks the President before Burt Likko could even get home from his day job to try.
2015: The Year In Review
If you could do 2015 all over again, would you want to? Here’s a summary of information and events to help you relive what happened and decide.
A Belated Hanukkah Gift For A Wealthy Man
Or, how the Federal Circuit made an ambitious Constitutional claim that may affect football fans nationwide.
He Can’t Take It With Him, After All
A dispatch from Ordinary Times’ assigned Wu-Tang correspondent.
What Passes For A Profile In Courage These Days
A prominent Presidential candidate notices something that we’ve been working at fixing for years.
Marquee Case On The Docket: Evenwel v. Abbott
One case to rule them all, One Court to mind them,
One rule to govern the States and in its holdings bind them,
In the Land of Washington where the Justices decide.
End of Sabbatical Report
Burt Likko took a sabbatical from public affairs for two months. What did he learn?
Legal Draftsmanship, Part XIV
Submitted for your consideration, a candidate for the “unlikely sentence exemplar” award.
Two-Thirds of Idiocy Sabbatical Completed
For forty days and forty nights Burt Likko has labored to safeguard his own ignorance of all things superficially political and inconsequential, and focus instead on meaning and happiness. Can he do it for three more weeks?
