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Near as I can tell, they’re top flight. Judd Stone graduated first in his Northwestern Law School class and clerked for Justice Scalia. John Sullivan graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, was Exec Editor of the ND Law Review, interned for the Chief Justice of the Dallas Court of Appeals and is the President Emeritus of the Dallas Chapter of the Federalist Society. Those are the two that you’d want in your corner.
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Just as an aside, a football game at the Big House is quite an experience. First time I went was with my brother, an Oregon State alum. UMich vs. OSU, 9/19/15, Harbaugh’s first home game. Attendance, 109,651. Team went 10-3, beat OSU 35-7, though OSU scored first.
UMich fans are a classy bunch, let’s just say the complete opposite of another land grant school with which we’re all familiar. And Ann Arbor reminds me of Berkeley in a lot of ways. The game itself reminded me of the Stanford games I attended in the 1970s. Great tailgating, lots of activities, lots of excitement. Like Alabama, people dress up for the games.
People wanted my opinion as to whether a California coach — albeit one trained by Schembechler — would be successful in the tundra.
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Apparently, Democrats think RFK could win…
The DC establishment thinks RFK could win, and they’re panicking
Kennedy has a 19% favorability lead over both Biden and Trump. He’s connecting on the issues; economy, exploding debt, U.S. involvement in two major open-ended military commitments, and a profoundly insecure border. He has more practical positions on abortion, marijuana, the environment and consistent defense of free speech and civil liberties.
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Wish I could say I was surprised. Mrs. Mick was in a teacher’s union for six years in a Palo Alto Unified School District school. Long story short, awful experience. Suffice to say, the union definitely didn’t represent all the teachers. Her union rep was a lazy-as-sin janitor.
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In recent Reuters poll, Biden’s approval rating at lowest since April, 39%.
Biden approval falls to lowest level since April -Reuters/Ipsos
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Mayor Breed had originally campaigned on “defund the police” then snuck back in a 4.4% increase in their budget from 2019 through 2022. Now she wants to cut it again…or more accurately, needs to cut it again, thanks to the continuing retail and business exodus from San Francisco.
$9.1 mms. cuts to the Sheriff/DA, $18.5 mms. cuts in the police department, $10.5 mms. cuts to the fire department. $26 mms. cut to public health, $15.4 million cut to their crappy transportation system, and $9 mms. cut to the homeless.
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Trump Indictments Haven’t Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might
Interesting. What happens if Trump is convicted and sent to jail? Will he serve from prison?
More interesting…what if Trump isn’t convicted? He’ll promote his martyr status for all it’s worth.
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Competition study sponsored by the Independent Women’s Forum and the Independent Women’s Law Center. On Title IX, Male Bodied Athletes and the threat to women’s sport.
55 pages of data on the harm that male athletes can and do present to female athletes.
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A Federal jury found the National Association of Realtors liable of conspiring to fix prices. Looks like high real estate commissions have over-stayed their welcome. Be interesting to see how this shakes out because it’s a price fixing verdict. Will lawyers be next? Tipping?
I suspect you said that semi-in jest, but it’s closer to the truth than you might think. I’ve spent 18 years selling traditional law firm services. They have one and only one goal, and that is not to convince a buyer that they’re the best option, but that they’re the only option. But in most aspects, traditional law firms move in lockstep with each other, and their marketing and business development programs have the effect of dramatically limiting competition. Saw an interesting stat the other day…82% of all new client numbers are issued without benefit of a competitive RFP.
AYFKM? More than four out of five don’t even get a competing proposal? And I’m not talking about new matters, I’m talking about new clients.
Everything about that business moves in lockstep. Rate raises, associate pay bumps…the firms are paranoid about communicating with each other. It isn’t really a trust, but it may as well be.
I always said that if I ever needed to find a job quickly, I would become a legal procurement consultant. I have friends who parachute into a company, blindly promise that they’ll cut legal fees by at least 25%…and they do so. Easily. Because most firms will overbill like crazy if they think they can get away with it.
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The problem I have with using 6 million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust in that fashion, is that there was a worldwide total of 12 million Jews at the time.
What if some professor projected/theorized the deaths of half the Muslims in the world, which would be 900 million deaths? Would the Muslims go batshit crazy? Of course they would. Or if 1.19 billion Christians perished? Would the Christians be a wee bit peeved? Yes, I suspect so.
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Biden’s approval rate among Democrats dropped 11% in just the last 30 days according to a new Gallup poll. His approval rating among Democrats fell to 75% and has fallen to a new low of 37% overall.
Democrats’ Rating of Biden Slips; Overall Approval at 37% (gallup.com)
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But Bidennomics is working! Karine Jean-Pierre said so, it must be true.
I don’t think she’s very bright. She spit the bit on the MCATs (her parents wanted her to be a doctor), but she gravitated to politics instead.
And she’s always been hyper-partisan. I realize that Presidential press secretaries tend to be that way, but the irony is that (a) she has repeatedly invoked the Hatch Act to avoid reporter questions — even though it has been repeatedly pointed out to her that the answers to the questions did not constitute Hatch Act violations; and (b) she actually was censured by the OSC who concluded that KJP had violated the Hatch Act when she repeatedly made references to “MAGA Republicans” and referred to candidates as “mega MAGA Republicans who don’t believe in the rule of law.”
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I just read that in 2017 there were 221 fatal fentanyl and other drug overdoses in San Francisco. In 2019, it was 441. Through 8/31/23, there were 563, which projects to a total of 841 drug fatalities. City attorney Dennis Herrera tried to use injunctions to keep dealers out of the Tenderloin.
But an appeals court ruled that they couldn’t keep drug dealers out.
A separate article quoted multiple drug dealers as not caring about their customers or their deaths. They can make $350k annually peddling poison. The SF DA files 800 to 1,000 drug arrests and cases per year, but judges allow even repeat offenders to be let out. The new DA has been in office for 15 months and only recently convicted her first drug dealer.
SF has 20 centers that offer drug paraphernelia; e.g., clean syringes, foil, pipes, etc. in hopes of reducing overdoses. Perhaps they should reallocate their resources into abstinence, getting people clean
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As much as I love my dear mother-in-law (formerly a residential realtor in Saratoga), I don’t know of any other group that’s more overpaid on the whole as residential realtors.
Realtors think they work hard, that they’re smart, that they’re honest and candid, that they aren’t pushy and that they don’t collaborate with each other against their clients’ financial interest. To be charitable, let’s just say it’s a sliding scale…
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58% of New Yorkers say that migrants pose a serious problem and agree with Mayor Adams’ statement that the crisis could “destroy New York City.”
In a bipartisan result, at least 79% of Democrats, Republicans, independents, men, women, upstaters, downstaters, Blacks, whites, Latinos, Catholics, Jews and Protestants all agree that it is a serious problem.
Last month, Biden had a 20% edge over Trump in New York State. Yesterday’s poll, the lead has fallen to 9% (46% to 37%). And if you include RFK Jr. and Cornel West, Biden’s lead is just 7%. And consider that Biden defeated Trump by 23% in the presidential election.
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