Mubarak to resign tonight??

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Thursday February 10, 2011 · 7:32 AM PST

2011/02/10 · 07:32

Al Jazeeera reports that sources in the armed forces say so. Right now there's a guy on Egyptian TV saying that the army says Mubarak will meet protesters' legitimate demands.

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Tuesday January 18, 2011 · 12:21 PM PST

2011/01/18 · 12:21

She's former Connecticut Secretary of State, Democrat Susan Bysiewicz. I frankly don't know much about her, but she has won statewide races before and will be formidable.

Her candidacy announcement signals that she'll focus on Lieberman's attention deficit with respect to his home state.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 4:57 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 16:57

We interrupt our regularly scheduled circular firing squad discussion of health care reform to ponder briefly the uproar over President Obama’s planned address to schoolchildren on Tuesday, September 8.

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 11:13 AM PDT

2009/07/21 · 11:13

Well, that didn't take long.

After arresting Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct when he loudly protested police activity at his own home, the State of Massachusetts today dropped all charges against him.

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Sunday July 12, 2009 · 7:30 PM PDT

2009/07/12 · 19:30

First things first. I worked on Ricci v. DeStefano on behalf of the plaintiffs. I was then, and am now, a non-practicing attorney. When I took a job with a former colleague, the attorney who handled the case from the start, much had already happened in the case. New Haven's Civil Service Board had already decided not to certify the results of the two promotional tests that led to this case and the Complaint had been filed in District Court. I worked on the cross-motions for summary judgment and, after the firefighters' motion was denied and New Haven's motion granted, I worked on the appeal to the Second Circuit, where Judge Sotomayor sat on the panel that heard the case. I don't recall whether I was still working in the same office when the case was argued, but I had moved on by the time the Second Circuit handed down its decision.

Lots more after the jump.

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Sunday February 15, 2009 · 7:13 PM PST

2009/02/15 · 19:13

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of interview/posts based on the proposition that it’s a hell of a lot easier to type up smart things that someone else says than to think up smart things to say your ownself.

I’m happy and honored to open the series with the first part of a three-part interview with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a public interest law firm dedicated to "defending your rights in the digital world."

More, including the first part of the interview, after the break.

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 9:55 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 21:55

There's an apocryphal story about Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry that tonight's events bring to mind.

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 4:20 PM PDT

2008/08/20 · 16:20

If there’s one thing we know about John McCain, it’s that he’s a stratight-talkin’ maverick ex-POW. (Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know the POW thing; he doesn’t like to talk about it much.)

Because he’s a straight-talkin’ maverick ex-POW, those who criticize what McCain says or, worse, disagree with him reveal themselves to be flip-flopping, politically correct anti-patriots who are willing to lose a war in order to win an election. Talk about an embarrassing faux pas! And a difficult one to avoid in light of the fact that much of what McCain says appears at first glance to be, how to put this delicately? incredibly stoopid, certifiably insane or both.

There is, fortunately, a fairly easy way to avoid such humiliations. I explain after the break.

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 9:55 AM PST

2008/02/01 · 09:55

Congressman John Conyers came to New Haven yesterday to help kick off five days of intense grassroots campaign work for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Speaking to an overflow crowd at the African-American Center, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee reminded us of the importance of the task ahead and provided an update on where we stand as far as holding the Bush administration accountable for its lawlessness.

Details after the jump.

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 5:23 PM PST

2008/01/27 · 17:23

Because deep in my heart, I do believe . . .

Tunes after the jump.

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Saturday July 21, 2007 · 11:50 AM PDT

2007/07/21 · 11:50

It's understandable that there's been a lot of talk comparing Senator David Vitter's woes to those that plagued President Clinton at the end of his second term. After all, when Vitter arrived in Washington, DC as a congressman, it was the height of our National Fellatio Crisis. Vitter promised to help clean up the nation's capital and he joined congressional Republicans as they bravely pursued impeachment proceedings against Clinton for false testimony he had given with respect to an illicit sexual relationship that had tarnished the honor and dignity of the Oval Office.

Now we learn that there have been incidents in which Senator Vitter has himself engaged in behavior that some say is similar to the behavior the Senator once said should have occasioned President Clinton's resignation. Some Democrats have even suggested that, based on the principles he purported to hold dear, Vitter should now resign his office. But something in the comparison just stuck in the Ol' Houndcat's craw. The two situations seemed different to me, though I couldn't articulate why. It was time to call in an expert. I pass along her helpful analysis after the jump.

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 8:45 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 20:45

The plaintiff who has sued Media Matters, using as his nom de guerre "Anthony 'Andy' Martin" (described in this recommended dkos diary) is also known as Anthony Martin-Trigona, one of the truly great vexatious litigators in a nation not known for its shortage of vexatious litigation. When I first heard of him, at the beginning of my legal career, he was legendary. Join me after the jump and I'll try to impart some of the flavor of Martin-Trigona's career, some of the activities that have lead otherwise valiant members of the legal profession to speak his name in whispers.

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