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Speculation about Obama’s political career began even before he graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from the Law School, where he made history as the first black president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. Despite suggestions from his professors that he apply for a federal court clerkship, by his second year Obama had already made clear his intention to pursue a career in grassroots organizing and civil rights litigation. Obama also later become a lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School...
...little perspective, among Tribe’s other former students is Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts...
...there’s Ohio: The state uses more provisional ballots than any other. If you show up to a Buckeye State polling booth with a wrong ID you will be handed one of these ballots. Your vote will not be counted on Nov. 4, and the state Supreme Court will decide if it ever will be. Nothing would put a damper on an Obama victory party tonight more than the news that this whole election has anti-climaxed into a litigation...
Rejected now by both court and bureaucracy, the Bybee Memo may have no effective existence. But its notoriety is certain to outlive this Administration. Indeed, critics believe it will be part of the Bush legacy. Says Martin Lederman, visiting professor with the Georgetown University Law Center and former adviser to the Office of Legal Counsel: "the memo will be seen as one of the most extreme deviations from the rule of law and from the President's obligation to take care that the law is faithfully executed...
...National Election Study, the average respondent correctly answered only 14.4 questions out of 31. Only 50 percent correctly identified which party controlled the Senate before the election; only 11 percent of the survey respondents could identify the post held by William Rehnquist, then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...