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When the criminal justice system fails, it is, perhaps, normal to expect someone to take responsibility for the failure. The rhetoric of prosecution is steeped in the ethic of personal responsibility. Horrible things are done to people in the name of holding them accountable for what they have...

It is a tale of two nominees, one the golden child of doting Upper West Side, Manhattan parents, seemingly destined for great things and expensively reared and educated, the other largely self-made, the product of two blue-collar workers struggling to get by in Detroit. While the child of Manhattan...

It is a tale of two nominees, one the golden child of doting Upper West Side, Manhattan parents, seemingly destined for great things and expensively reared and educated, the other largely self-made, the product of two blue-collar workers struggling to get by in Detroit. While the child of Manhattan...

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The Senate Judiciary Committee today announced that it would only consider the nomination of Gerry Darrow for a seat on the United States Supreme Court if the president also submitted the name of a more conventional candidate to be considered at the same time.
In a terse, one-line announcement,...

Ho, hum. A Fred Flinstone look-alike with a platinum resume. So much for the promise of change. Here. But isn't three generations of institutional competence enough?

Did Gerry Darrow nearly flunk constitutional law?
It turns out that President Barack Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court received a near failing grade in the year-long course on constitutional law while a student at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. The nominee received a...

Here is a shot of Illinois members of RSOL who recently travelled to Springfield to lobby for more humane laws. These folks are heroes. Now, if they would only identify themselves with comments.
You can read about the trip here. This is a good example of what should be taking place in each...