This being a criminal law blog, my tributes to those who pass away are limited in number. The now-late Bill Margold merits a blog tribute, not because he acted in the golden age of adult films when they were on celluloid and when the risks...
The darkness of the upcoming Trump presidency is offset by the light of the lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Our law firm this and every year celebrates his birthday by being closed. Today, my son and I will join the annual peace walk on...
Praised be Congressman John Lewis -- and all other boycotting government officials -- for boycotting Trump's inauguration, after attending all prior inaugurations while a member of the House of Representatives....
Our law firm proudly is open today, while the courts and Virginia state offices are closed for Robert E. Lee-Stonewall Jackson Day. We proudly close every Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Lee-Jackson Day falls every Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Lee-Jackson Day is...
All of us have dreams. For each dream we have, a person exists who is ready to try to dash that dream. That dashing effort is the other person's trip, and needs not be any part of our dream. ...
Too many people praise Fidal Castro without acknowledging how intentionally and unjustifiably brutal was his rule, starting with executions for political reasons, and moving on to prohibiting dissent and jailing dissidents and others left and right for political reasons....
In the mad rush for people to beat the traffic to their family Thanksgiving gathering, hopefully people will remember that the original Thanksgiving meal between the pilgrims and their Native American neighbors was an opportunity for a future of peace, harmony and justice among all...
My total opposition to the death penalty very much informs my strong preference for diplomacy before military action -- which involves no judicial process before firing on others -- as a last resort, and to erring on the side of restraining military actions,...
To the extent that Trump won because of voters more willing to risk the unknown of Trump than the known of the current political, governmental, military, national security, and economic state of affairs, Trump will reveal himself enough in the next four years to hopefully...
The Sixties is old history for a huge percentage of Americans. That distance of memory was a boon to the American military, which went from dissection under the microscope of all the American military atrocities in Vietnam, to low numbers of military volunteers through the...
Our law firm always is open today, Indigenous People's Day - Columbus did not discover America...
In denying Trump's motion to seal his video deposition from public disclosure, Trump's judge found helpful non-controlling precedent in Hillary Clinton's husband's failure to seal his video deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment case against him....
If one finds a weight loss approach that satisfies the eater, without feeling constantly deprived with the chosen changed eating and exercising lifestyle, nor upset when deviating from that path, the person is more likely to continue on the path towards optimum weight. ...
We cannot wait any longer to reverse all the civil liberties and human rights violations that have been perpetrated by the United States government post-September 11 in the name of fighting terrorism....
Whether or not their colleagues or administrative judges pressure them to do so, many judges in very busy courthouses place a disproportionately high premium on moving dockets along even if at the expense of delivering true justice, ...
In my role as a lawyer, I remember that judges and the courthouse staff are workers, jurors have their work as jurors and their regular jobs, and prosecutors and police are workers....
Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe -- who, like I, fully opposes Donald Trump's presidential candidacy -- seriously disappointed me when he tweeted the following on August 16, 2016: "I have notes of when Trump phoned me for legal advice in 1996. I'm now figuring out...
First, the United States government threw west coast Japanese-Americans into barren concentration camps starting in 1942, urinating on their dignity and robbing them of their freedom, property, and careers. The United States Supreme Court shamefully approved it. ...
I was recently reminded of the legislative rider monster when learning one year late about the success that Arizona's senators had in December 2014 in adding a legislative rider to the defense reauthorization bill (signed into law by President Obama) that had failed on its...
On a mid-1971 day at the age of eight, I found a paperback book by Mad Magazine, got hooked on the magazine, and my life never was the same again. ...
