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...conference began yesterday with a panel composed of Ginsburg, U.S. District Court of Massachusetts Judge Nancy Gertner, First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sandra L. Lynch, and former New York Times legal journalist Linda J. Greenhouse...
After Ginsburg described former Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist rehearsing to swear her in, Greenhouse said, “I think rehearsal’s a good thing when you’re swearing somebody in, right...
...reference was to a blunder by current Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76 that came when he swore in President Barack Obama two months...
...previous Administrations have taken. The nomination of Gil Kerlikowske as the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy may also signal a softer federal line on marijuana. If he is confirmed as the so-called drug czar, Kerlikowske will take with him experience as police chief of Seattle, where he made it clear that going after people for possessing marijuana was not a priority for his force. (See a story about the grass-roots marijuana war in California...
...riding on the gradual rollout of version 2.0 of his bank plan - not necessarily bigger than the $787 billion package that left the markets cold, but sharper and more plausible. The trouble with the initial draft unveiled unartfully last month by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, says Moody's Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi, was that it was "too clever by half," creating elaborate incentives for private investors when the simple solution would be to have Uncle Sam immediately wade in, grab control, wring out the bad debt and punish the malefactors. The more complex approach attempted to avoid the stigma...