I spend a fair amount of time these days thinking about 'threat models' for national databses and national ID cards.
Today's New York Times has an article that encapsulates one of the major worries, what we sometimes call the “usual suspect bit”. Read Odyssey of State Capitols and State Suspicion. Now imagine someone informs on you…
Anyone who read machine-pol-and-proud-of-it Rep. Charles B. Rangel's autobiography (see Charlie Rangel's “And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since”) would have predicted that Rangel Remains in Clinton's Camp in Her Battle With Obama.
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Each year, the Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar sponsors the Chester Bedell Memorial Trial Competition. Each law school in the state is invited to send two teams. This year eight schools responded and sent sixteen teams.
The 2007-08 competition, a mock products liability case, was held on Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday, yesterday, each team tried the case twice, representing the plaintiffs at one trial and the defendant at the other. For each trial, three trial lawyers served as jurors and a judge or another trial lawyer served as the presiding judge. The teams with 2-0 records and the highest scores advanced to the semifinals on Friday morning. (Miami's other team ended day 1 with a 1-1 record, losing to one of the semifinalists.) The winners (Stetson and Miami) advanced to the finals on Thursday afternoon. The finals were tried before a panel of five lawyer-jurors and a circuit judge.
And the UM team won. Robert Palmer, chair of the Trial Lawyers Section announced the winning team. Frank Angones, President of the Florida Bar, presented the best advocate award to Jonathan Weiss, and the team trophy to Joycelyn S. Brown, Christopher M.
Lomax, and Jonathan R. Weiss. Sarah B. King was the witness.
Congrats to all, and to team coaches Terry Anderson and James Gailey.
Demonstrating his brand of moral leadership, former Gov. Mike Huckabee showed how he believes a Bible-inspired Presidential aspirant should take a stand against long-time symbols of racism such as the flying of the Confederate flag on state property:
Huckabee Says Let SC Decide on Flag — Pressed later on whether he finds the flag offensive, Huckabee refused to give an opinion.
''It's really not something that is an issue for the president of the United States; that's an issue South Carolina would deal with,'' Huckabee said at a news conference in Columbia, S.C.”
Even if one believes — as one well might — that federalism concerns make this a state issue as a legal matter, that doesn't absolve national figures from offering moral leadership. Or from showing their true colors.
Jotwell Blenderlaw
