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Brant Lee

The End of Wall Street

September 18, 2008

My learned colleague Alan Newman tells me that this article is a good general overview of what is going on on Wall Street. Not my field, but I consider the bankers, financiers, executives, and real estate professionals who made a lot of money over the last decade to be corporate welfare queens. And I'm nervous [...]

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Ohio Election Law Action!

September 13, 2008

Ohio looks to be an important swing state (again!) in the upcoming Presidential elections. But you might not have realized that legal issues may determine the outcome. Efforts to settle these issues in advance seem to have failed. Here are a few of the battles currently being fought:

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What is a "natural born Citizen"?

July 11, 2008

Law professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin from Senator John McCain's home state University of Arizona has concluded that Senator McCain is not eligible to become President of the United States. You see, Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone.

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Deference to military judgement

July 1, 2008

Yesterday a federal appeals court released unclassified portions of its decision in Parhat v. Gates. Here's the lead from the New York Times:
In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for [...]

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Scalia unbound

June 30, 2008

Here's an observation from Dahlia Lithwick on the Heller decision (concluding that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own a handgun):
But I must first pass along this rather brilliant observation from professor Stephen Wermiel from American University, who wonders why none of the dissenters cautioned the majority that today's decision"will almost certainly cause [...]

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