Archive for May 1st, 2009

An excerpt from a footnote in my Law Review article

Here is a hopefully useful excerpt from a footnote in my Law Review article. It’s not the whole footnote, and I’m not going to share the entire article for at least some time, as I have other plans for it. But this one footnote, the result of many, many hours of research, could be useful to others and I thought I would share it. (For those who are inter­ested, the article is not really about same-​​​​sex marriage as such, but about an obscure little choice of law problem in one of the very few areas where federal courts have to look into the validity of a marriage [ . . . ]

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“Knock, Knock!”

“Who’s there?” “Orange.” “Orange who?” “Orange you glad you didn’t vote for McCain!” I still say Stevens is due — he’ll be 89 this year. And Ginsburg has health issues. Luckily all three are part of the liberal bloc and will be replaced with liberals — not likely to upset court balance. I’m in the middle of finals week in my last semester in law school. Assuming I pass every­thing, I’ll graduate on May 17th, which is inci­den­tally the septen­vig­in­tennial of my birth.