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Lawyer: Obama Should Start Pardoning Right Away
On Tuesday, we did a bit of pardon speculation and asked whether President Bush, on his way out of the White House, might have a Marc Rich moment and make a controversial get-outta-jail-free pick. (Conrad Black, anyone? Hard to say, but Slate thinks Michael Milken and Scooter Libby are pardon...
Catching Legal Momentum
For prospective students interested in gender-violence and women’s rights, I want to highlight a recent presentation by Maya Raghu of Legal Momentum. A Senior Staff Attorney and Director of the Employment and Housing Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence Program, Raghu provided some valuable i...
Cali High Court to Review Prop. 8; Ban Remains Pending Final Decision
It’s time to put Proposition 8 back on our radar. Yesterday, California’s High Court voted 6 to 1 to review legal challenges to the voter initiative that restored the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. (But the court refused to stay the ban pending its final decision.) Associated...
Swastikas & the Confrontation Clause
We’ve never spent too much time pondering the Confrontation Clause. In fact, it doesn’t appear to have ever been mentioned on the Law Blog. So here goes. Are a witness’s swastika tattoos admissible as evidence of bias when the witness is testifying in the trial of a Hispanic man?...
Marriage Uncertainty in California, and A Look Back at the Road to Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
The election of President-elect Barack Obama on November 4th was a euphoric moment for socially progressive American voters. The jubilation, however, was attenuated by the simultaneous passage of anti-gay legislation in four states. California, Arizona and Florida voted to ban same-sex marriages...
