Oh, Edith. Did you really say these things? Do you believe them? If so, what justifies your sitting on the federal bench, deciding issues of great importance to Americans of all colors and ethnicities?
Edith Jones, the 64-year-old jurist, sits on the prestigious United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Her name gets dropped from time to time as Supreme Court material, although, truth be known, she’s now a little long in the tooth for a promotion to the high court.
Here’s a taste of what Edith had to say at gathering of the Federalist Society at the University...
June 9, 2013
There aren’t enough prison cells in the federal Bureau of Prisons for all the police officers who have pushed a detainee, and then lied about it in a police report. So it's hard for me to fathom why federal officials singled out Meriden’s Evan Cossette for prosecution. But there he was, convicted of shoving a drunken prisoner and then lying. Why prosecute this case and ignore so many more?
I put kids through college suing police officers, typically for using unreasonable force. In one case, witnesses saw a cop slam a kid in the head with a police baton as the kid sat...
June 5, 2013
This past Memorial Day I saw a graphic reminding us to recall all those who have lost their lives in armed conflicts on behalf of the United States. The bars reflected war dead in the conflicts that we’ve engaged in since the Second World War. Somehow, the tiny bars associated with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars made those conflicts seem like blips on a larger screen dominated by losses in the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. The Iraqi and Afghan conflicts have taken place just below the radar of our national lives.
Sebastion Junger’s War was a necessary corrective....
June 2, 2013
Oh, how sensitive they all were. How considerate, how kind, how diplomatic. Governor Dannel Malloy, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, state lawmakers, all sitting secretly clucking their tongues in a sickly sweet chorus of concern. “We shall keep secret things too painful to be spoken of,” they decided. Why, their very decision is so sensitive it cannot even be debated in an open forum.
I suppose we all ought to be thankful this unctuous gaggle of civil servants is protecting us from knowing the truth. But just who elected these clowns to serve as existential...
June 1, 2013
May 31, 2013
Clients often claim entrapment when a police officer catches them red-handed in some unlawful act, especially when one of the participants is an...
May 28, 2013
I saw an interview of Nicco Mele on PBS, and was intrigued enough to read his book, The End of Big: How Internet Makes David the New...
May 25, 2013
Odds are you have an opinion about whether Jodi Arias should live or die. You probably also know all about Florida’s prosecution of Casey...
May 16, 2013
I should be bleeding red, white and blue over reports that the Internal Revenue Service has singled out some Tea Party groups for extra-special...
May 16, 2013
Here’s some free legal advice that might just keep you out of jail: If federal officials pay you a surprise visit and want to talk to you,...
May 13, 2013
I originally posted this in 2010. Over the weekend, I was approached and asked for permission to republish this by a third party. I am reposting...