Author: Mark of New Jersey

Another myth busted.  Now can we please stop talking about how Obama won by “supressing” voter turnout, or that Romney lost because he couldn’t get conservatives to come out for him due to his...

“This is the kind of thing New Jerseyans are built for – we’re plenty tough and now we have a little more reason to be angry after this. Just what we need in New...

Jack Marshall has a fantastic post up summarizing what we actually know about the Elizabeth Warren unauthorized practice of law issue that, with a few minor quibbles on tangential issues, dovetails very well with...

Professor Jacobson has uncovered this morning a case in which Elizabeth Warren entered an appearance in a federal appellate court as a representative of a Massachusetts client in a case that appears to have...

Professor Jacobson has responded to my post disputing his contention that Elizabeth Warren may have engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.  As explained below, I continue to believe the case that Professor Warren...

[UPDATED BELOW; FOLLOW UP POST HERE and HERE] At Legal In.sur.rec.tion, Professor Jacobson contends that Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Senate candidate, liberal firebrand, and Harvard law professor, has  engaged or appears to have engaged in...

I have tentatively named the following little concoction created this evening “Bardstown Butter,” though I’m open to other names. All I know is that it’s a lethally delicious, if sweet, combination.

Submitted: Bill Clinton is to Republicans as Chipper Jones is to the New York Mets. For all of his “elder statesman” status, he still knows how to embarrass your closer with a walk off...

For most of the last 40 years or so, Pennsylvania has been viewed as an important swing state in Presidential elections.   Prior to 2000, it had voted with the winning Presidential candidate for...

After the Republican Party was massively defeated in the 2006 Congressional elections, then almost as badly in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections, there was a fair amount of discussion that the GOP’s national...

I fail to see how this is anything but a common-sense, uncontroversial, obvious, and good idea that might actually help a lot of people. Which of course means that we can expect Congress to...

Traditionally, the Fourth of July is when the wild wineberry and blackberry vines (mostly wineberries, which are a bit of a controversial topic, it would seem) in the woods behind my house start to...

So one of the hot topics on Memeorandum today is a study by a Tea-Party affiliated group called the Doctor and Patient Medical Association claiming that, as the Daily Caller’s headline proclaims, “83% of...

Below is a repost of something I posted on December 16, 2009, several months before PPACA was finally enacted.  As you will note, the post predicts the following: 1. Whether the mandate would be...

Germany imposes will on Greece.  Greece makes a few last ditch efforts to fight back, if only for posterity’s sake, but ultimately just gets kicked around as it goes down in flames.  Whether the...

Love or hate Jeffrey Goldberg’s politics, he’s an unbelievably good writer.  Love or hate Chris Christie’s politics, no one would say that he’s uninteresting.  Love or hate Bruce Springsteen’s politics, no one with a...

In the comments to my post yesterday, my Right Honourable Friend Tom Van Dyke is arguing that, regardless of whether last week’s directive is technically constitutional and within the scope of the Executive’s powers...

Having now reviewed the official directive that some are characterizing as “DREAM by fiat,” I must say that I completely agree with the esteemed Mr. Likko that the directive is both clearly Constitutional and...

  Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposiumhere. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here....

I’m proud to say that I’ve made a conscious effort to avoid the blow-by-blow of the Presidential horse race this year.  In fact, I’ve spent more time – a combined 5 minutes – watching...