Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Eleven Days in Jail for … Jaywalking?

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Guys, don’t wear long hair in Dallas. Parents, don’t take your children to Texas.

The Constitution remains a brilliant aspiration. Making it real is a never-ending project.

Posted in Civil Liberties | 4 Comments

Milestones

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Some time in the last 24 hours, this page recorded its 500,000th unique daily visitor according to a strict metric, and this site also recorded its millionth page view according to sitemeter, which although something of an industry standard is a less strict count.

Thank you for your kind attention, and especially for your emails and comments.

Posted in Discourse.net | 3 Comments

Ros-Lehtinen Drops Another Political Slur

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

The Representative elected from the district I live in said yesterday that some (unspecified, in the way of many slurs) Democrats are traitors and secretly hope that our soldiers are killed in battle. Yes, although not her exact words, that is the exact meaning of what she said.

Bid for Prewar Iraq Files Raises Political Heat – New York Times: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, declared that some Democrats “do not want us to win in Iraq” for fear that it would give the administration a political victory.

Will no one serious come forward to rid us of this embarrassing incumbent? It would be an uphill race, but she is much more vulnerable and unpopular around here than she seems.

Previous relevant post: Who Will Run Against Ros-Lehtinen? (All Politics Is Local).

Posted in Politics: FL-18, Politics: The Party of Sleaze | 5 Comments

Red Cross Ends Decade-Long Injustice

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Thanks to Opinio Juris for providing a pointer to a new International Committee of the Red Cross statement. It announces the adoption of a Third Optional Protocol making a “Red Crystal” a symbol on par with the long-standing “Red Cross” and “Red Crescent”. In so doing it finally — after decades — makes it possible for an Israeli relief organizaiton to join.

About time.

Posted in Law: International Law | 3 Comments

Important News at WashingtonPost.Com

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Big news at White House Talk, in which my brother writes:

I’ve been wrestling with how to break this to my regular readers, but … my wife and I are expecting our first child within the next several weeks, and I will be taking a few weeks off when that happens.

(And yes, I had heard of this before I read it online.)

Posted in Dan Froomkin | 2 Comments

Nofziger on Alito

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Lynn Nofsziger: “Conservatives are pleased with the president’s selectiion of Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. For them Alito bit goes a long way.”

Posted in Law: The Supremes | 1 Comment