Sixteen years after I took my high school graduation photo posing with a Con Law casebook, today I walked across the stage to get my JD. I’ve taken the circuitous route to get here, detouring into computer science and teaching in Vietnam, but in the end I made it to law school after all. I […]
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Wake me up when final exams are over. Wait, that won’t work if I just sleep through everything. Oh well, get back to me in a week or so and I’ll be much happier.
How I feel when I have to read another Scalia dissent.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: DOMA
Sixteen and a half years ago President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, enshrining inequality into federal law. As Clinton tells it, he had to sign it because it was a veto-proof majority and any veto would have been overruled anyway, though I rather suspect that it had more to do with the fact […]
Stream of consciousness
By the time I finish this amicus brief research, I really am not going to want to think about DOMA and Prop 8 ever again. It’ll be worth it if it helps sway the mind of a Supreme Court justice though. Speaking of which, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea […]
Yay, my trade secrets textbook has a big font in addition to being thin! Less reading is good.
Begin reboot sequence: Brain
I’m at the point where my brain wants to completely crash, and it’s only Monday of the first week of finals. I think my brain BSOD’d itself, but unlike a malfunctioning Windows 95 system, CTL-ALT-DEL won’t work. And so here I sit looking at animated Doctor Who gifs, which is a wholly unproductive use of my time. […]
Okay, so this Scumbag Scalia meme isn’t an entirely accurate representation of Scalia’s tl;dr on the healthcare law or of his lengthy opinions, but it is an accurate representation of how I feel about having to read his lengthy dissents. And truthiness is what matters, right?