Justice Blog
Thoughts about justice, progressive legal issues, Justice Legal Strategies, the practice of law, management, and other random musings
The perception that left-of-center judges are judicial activists and conservative judges engage in judicial restraint no longer holds. Recently retired judge David Tatel (left), a former civil rights lawyer,...
The Supreme Court decision in United States v. Rahimi represents a slightly less strict application of originalism to Second Amendment issues than appeared in the Court’s 2022 decision in New York State...
In my view, Larry David’s HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of best television shows of the millennium. Amazingly it spans the millennium, with the first season airing in 2000 (!) and the final season...
Hank Aaron, an all-time baseball great, was hesitant to move to Atlanta from Milwaukee with the Braves because of his experiences growing up in segregated Mobile, Alabama and as a minor leaguer in Georgia....
My brother David texted me about an hour after a unanimous jury convicted President Trump of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records concerning a hush money payoff related to the 2016 election....
The “three wise monkeys” were created in the 16th Century from a shrine in Japan but the underlying of maxim of “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil” for somebody who is trying to avoid the truth...
This week’s post is on two distinct subjects. For weeks I have planning to publish a post about the concept of a Civil Rights Lawyer Hall of Fame because of events this week commemorating the “Hall...
I have spent twenty years as a manager, fifteen of those as an executive manager. Over time, I have become just as passionate about managing as practicing law. Through trial and error, learning from my...
The legal team and students/alumni clients in the Harvard affirmative action case in a picture taken on the day our clients testified. Brenda Shum is second from the left on the bottom row. Fittingly,...
And if so, what does that mean?
Before I get started, some words of thanks to subscribers/readers of Justice Blog. Justice Blog is part of my late middle career change. Prior to two weeks ago,...