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Hi.  I was fortunate enough this past Friday to be featured on Anderson Cooper 360.  Ashleigh Banfield conducted the interview of both my client (an eyewitness to the Trayvon Martin murder) and me.  Ms. Banfield and the staff at 360 proved exceedingly gracious. Further, this evening I am slated to appear on Nancy Grace’s progra

First, please examine this link:  http://prospect.org/article/nine-circles-aca?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews.  Credit to the American Prospect, an excellent publication which I have long enjoyed, and the author of this succinct piece, Garrett Epps. So, what do we glean from Day 3 of the oral arguments over the constitutiona

Well, as of yesterday — Day 2 (of 3) — in the oral arguments before the SCOTUS on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, many commentators began raising dire warnings of this rather extremist, right-wing Court actually deeming the health care mandate unconstitutional.  Some observations of my own: 1.  Justice Kenned

I know that decisions later this Supreme Court Term will generate an altogether different reaction.  However, on March 21, the Supreme Court did issue two, related rulings addressing the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel during plea bargaining.  In Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye, the Court formally recognized the responsibility that

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/18/441242/revisiting-the-lorax-do-trees-have-rights/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews   Credit to Think Progress and to Peter Lehner of NRDC. This issue has fascinated me for several years.  Lehner does a remarkably good job of summarizing the arguments for recognizing the rights of organi