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So What CAN You Do With A History Major? Part Four
23 hours ago ago from The Way of Improvement Leads Home
I love these kinds of lists. Here are some famous people who were history majors in college. Notice that none of them became professional historians. George W. Bush , Former President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt , Former President of the United States Antonin Scalia , Supreme Court Justice Martha Stewart , Television personality Katharine Hepburn , Actress Bill Bradley , Former U.S. Senator and NBA Player Kareem ...
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Question for Cheney: The former vice-president on Hannity : I don't know what's going to happen in those trials, the thing that's disturbing is I don't know what the Justice Department does either. If it's an absolute certain thing, then Holder has the problem of saying we're going to have a balanced trial, and they'll have the opportunity to defend themselves and so forth. If it's not a certain thing why are you bringing him here. I mean ...
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6 hours ago ago from Law Blog - WSJ
By Ashby Jones The days of the honest services fraud law for years a go-to statute for federal prosecutors appear likely to be numbered. The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed deep skepticism about the law, suggesting it was too vague to be constitutional. Click here for Jess Bravin's story in the WSJ; here for the NYT story; here for the take from the NYT's Adam Liptak; here for the WaPo story; here for the LAT story. Click here here ...
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17 hours ago ago from Black Legal Issues
Former Rep. William Jefferson's appeal of his federal public corruption conviction wasn't on the Supreme Court calendar Tuesday. But during oral arguments on two other appeals, four of the court's justices raised concerns about the vagueness of the "honest services" fraud statute that was the centerpiece of the government's case against the New Orleans Democrat. Jefferson's conviction on 11 of 16 counts in August included three violations ...
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1 day ago ago from Morrison World News
U.S. Supreme Court judges asked prosecutors a slew of tough questions Tuesday about the conviction of Conrad Black, an encouraging sign for the jailed media baron trying to reclaim his freedom. At a one-hour hearing on Tuesday, the top U.S. court heard challenges to the honest services fraud law, a contentious act that critics argue is too vague and has been used to make a crime out of mistakes, minor transgressions and ethical ...
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If Honest-Services Law is Struck, Will an ‘Earthquake’ Ensue? - Law Blog - WSJ
7 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Ashby Jones The days of the honest services fraud law for years a go-to statute for federal prosecutors appear likely to be numbered. The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed deep skepticism about the law, suggesting it was too vague to be constitutional. Click here for Jess Bravin's story in the WSJ; here for the NYT story; here for the take from the NYT's Adam Liptak; here for the WaPo story; here for the LAT story. Click here here and ...
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16 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
A federal law that makes it a crime to deprive the public or one's employer of honest services is a favorite of prosecutors on the hunt for corrupt politicians and self-dealing corporate honchos. This Story But it found few admirers Tuesday at the Supreme Court. From one end of the mahogany bench to the other, and across the court's notable ideological divide, justices took turns criticizing the 1988 law that makes ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The New York Times : The Supreme Court released its first four decisions in argued cases this term on Tuesday. They were all minor, but one was notable for being Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court debut and for prompting a testy concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas. The case concerned whether federal trial-court rulings concerning the lawyer-client privilege may be appealed right away. Justice Sotomayor, with methodical reasoning ...
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14 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court released its first four decisions in argued cases this term on Tuesday. They were all minor, but one was notable for being Justice Sonia Sotomayor 's Supreme Court debut and for prompting a testy concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas . In a minor case, part of an opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor was rejected by Justice Clarence Thomas. Related Justices Appear Skeptical of ...
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16 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON A federal law that is a favorite tool of prosecutors in corruption cases met with almost universal hostility from the justices in Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday. Evan Vucci/Associated Press Miguel A. Estrada, center, urged the Supreme Court to strike down a law entirely. Related Sotomayor Draws Retort From a Fellow Justice (December 9, 2009) Times Topics: U.S. Supreme Court Jerry Lai/Associated ...
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