drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2009 | law, government, health
Oh, insurance companies. Enjoy those premiums we've been paying all those years! We won't miss this house or our ability to get credit that much anyway...
Quoted: James and Maria Ivory's dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida's Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes pipes. It got worse when they asked their insurer for help — and not only was their claim denied, but they've been told their entire policy won't be renewed.
- drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 06 2009 | law, government, politics
Put Al Gore on the Supreme Court says Hendrik Hertzberg. As he admits, it isn't going to happen. But after reading this I have to think that Jennifer Granholm is a strong candidate. She's lacking in some departments, but she's barely 50 and she's not a judge.
Quoted: The heart of a Justice’s job is interpreting and applying the Constitution, and for that things like a knowledge of history (including Constitutional history), a feel for the workings of government, a strong moral sense, an ability to think and write clearly, and a temperamental affinity for the long view—all of which Gore has in spades—are much more important than a professional familiarity with the details of contract or case law.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2007 | law, government, scooter libby, presidential pardon, bush administration
A hot parlor game indeed. It will be interesting. I'm guessing he gets pardoned.
Quoted: Just minutes after the Libby guilty verdict came down yesterday, the hottest parlor game in town quickly shifted from, Will the jury find Libby guilty? to Will President Bush pardon Libby?
- drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2007 | law, government, media
The Pentagon is calling on corporate clients to take their legal work to firms that don't represent Gitmo detainees...highly unprofessional behavior, at best (By Stimson, not the law firms he's attempting to threaten).
Quoted: Wrote the Post: “But it’s offensive — shocking, to use his word — that Mr. Stimson, a lawyer, would argue that law firms are doing anything other than upholding the highest ethical traditions of the bar by taking on the most unpopular of defendants. It’s shocking that he would seemingly encourage the firms’ corporate clients to pressure them to drop this work. And it’s shocking — though perhaps not surprising — that this is the person the administration has chosen to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo.”
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