Defending People

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A Time for Heroes in Delhi

| January 6, 2013

I am reminded, when I hear of lawyers shirk­ing their dif­fi­cult duties and stick­ing to the easy work, of the first few lines of Rud­yard Kipling’s Gunga Din: YOU may talk o’ gin an’ beer When you’re quar­tered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Alder­shot it; But if it comes to slaughter […]

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Beergoggle Lawmaking

| January 6, 2013

Obama’s advis­ers have cal­cu­lated that the longer they wait, the more dis­tance there is from the New­town mas­sacre and the greater the risk that the bipar­ti­san polit­i­cal will to tackle gun vio­lence will dis­si­pate. At the White House meet­ing, Stanek said, “the vice pres­i­dent indi­cated that there was a very short time­line for him to […]

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