Is it possible for a test to determine which law school applicants would make strong attorneys? Professors at the University of California, Berkeley tell The New York Times that they’ve come up with such a test . The professors, Marjorie M. Shulz and Sheldon Zedeck, argue that their test would...

It’s over, at least for New York City’s efforts to sue the firearms industry.  Mainly because the firearms industry is doing nothing wrong, save for the fact that it doesn’t get to vote in New York City mayoral elections, while the close relatives of thugs that steal guns so that ...

That's the title of Gretel Kovach's portrait of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller in today's New York Times.  LINK If Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of Texas’ highest criminal court, has ever doubted her judgment, she has not shown it. In 1998, Jud...

On the December 9, 2008, Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann charged that Bush administration members – whom he did not specify by name but presumably President Bush was meant to be included – deserve to be "in hell," as he cited a report that a post-war insurgency in Iraq using...

That's the title of Dahlia Lithwick's article in the March 9 edition of Newsweek.  It's subtitled, "Judges are not gods. But we must trust them to do their jobs, or do away with the institution itself." February was a spectacularly bad month for the judging business. Last...

Rick Casey at the Houston Chronicle adds his own high-powered rumor from the Court of Criminal Appeals, following up on Vince Leibowitz's reporting that some members of the Court want Presiding Judge Sharon Keller to resign before her removal hearing later this month. Casey writes: According to the ...

I’m taking most of the weekend off from blogging, so I’m going to round up some of the Friday news in short snippets. * I hope this means what I think it means, or what I hope it means — Several British cities will be hosting Conventions on Modern Liberty where, they will among oth...

"Judge Kent accepts plea deal and retires from bench," is Mary Flood's report at the Houston Chronicle website. U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice today and retired from the bench, avoiding a trial on that charge and five others accusi...

(Hat tip: Catholics in the Public Square ) From the man who once said he'd change his effusive views on Obama if the Pope called him to admonish him on the subject: Obama backer Pepperdine Professor Douglas Kmiec has described Pope Benedict's comments to Nancy Pelosi as "intrusive" because they put ...

I've not been tracking the downfall of allegedly lecherous federal district Judge Samuel Kent of Galveston, who today pled guilty to obstruction of justice charges and announced his retirement. But Mary Flood at the Houston Chronicle brings the news that: U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent pleaded guil...