#constitution adventures

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My torts professor is best friends with my best friend’s torts professor.

They write books together.

We read the books together.

There’s something really nice about having something that connects me back to him here.

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Frankly, if you’re endorsed by a newspaper that is often riddled with typos, yet technically is at a fourth grade reading level, I’m less likely to vote for you.

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Realizing how deep down the nerdy rabbit hole I am:

I am sitting on my laptop, taking a break from reading a book on legislative intent’s role in judicial interpretation written by a Federal Circuit judge, to look up the full flag code so I can argue with my friend about whether its disrespectful to  burn a “representation” of the flag that doesn’t meet federal guidelines for a flag while I sit and work with kids who are studying for the LSAT. I’m totally not going to be a gunner in law school. Totally not.

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Clinton the Musical (Spoiler-heavy)

A wonderful play encompassing the dual nature of my first President.  The cast was witty and Hillary RODHAM Clinton was great. The entire play was fabulous.

The set - that was astonishing: They put up images of various presidents, and in each painting was a smaller painting of a woman they had an affair with. Hillary has a painting of Eleanor put up, and in the background of hers? A small image of a woman, whom I assume to be Lorena Hickock, the journalist she is purported to have had an affair with.

Both Bills were lovely - though I must say “scoundrel” Bill got all the good lines and all the character development. Hillary was actually the star of the show, but that’s simply true to life. The scandals were played up, and a meta-song about the Media. “If nothing happens, then we’ll tell it to you live” trampled the line between satire and the truth. There was an insane amount of bisexuality references/jokes/moments in the show - and not a single one was offensive. They were all really earnestly funny queer jokes about “Going Both Ways”.  Newt Gingrich was portrayed as a giggling squawking yes man to a conniving and high sexualized Kenneth Starr who has an all consuming obsession with Bill Clinton’s “punishment” (read: handcuffs and kinky things).  Kenneth Starr was a flaming homosexual who at one point ripped away his suit to reveal a leather thong and a leather chestpiece, while singing about Bill Clinton.  To the praise of the small ensemble, they do a beautiful job making each “character” distinct. Outside the Clinton’s, there were only six actors on stage at any time. Yet each character, though played by the same face, felt a different person. Since they use cardboard cutouts for all the senators and congresspeople, there is a theme of these poor paper people being knocked over or dropped about - which actually only served to increase the hilarity of the show. It looked like fun, and the cast always reacted well. The star of the night was Judy Gold though - that woman is a blessing. She played Leslie Tripp, a Fox News Anchor, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, a 90′s mom, and various other characters I may have forgotten the name of flawlessly. Shoutout to my friend Adrian: Our tickets put us stage right, the second row, just a bit before the wings. At one point, FDR in his wheelchair was rolling out of a musical number and off stage, when that wheelchair got awful close to the edge... and the wheel went clear off. Adrian managed to jump up in time to catch the wheel that had slid off and support it until one of the stronger actors could grab hold of the chair and tip it back onto the stage. Adrian saved FDR’s Life! He should really mention that next time he gives a tour of the Roosevelt House.

A wonderful play I would gladly see again and again.

Pictures are courtesy of Adrian as well, and these are my favourite few:

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Skills I Should Have Had By 20:

Cover Letter Writing

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The Year End Report forth Supreme Court came out today!

The big news: The Supreme Court is going to implement a program that would require both paper and electronic form filing for appeals, motions, briefs - everything.

And, everything would be accessible online, free to the public, from the SCOTUS website. 

So now instead of waiting for forever we can get everything instantly. Instead of having to get it from secondary sources, we can get all the documentation from the court.

It might be up as early as 2016. 2016. Can you imagine? A completely accessible Supreme Court from anywhere - and it might be functioning by the time I go to law school!

Also CJ Roberts is really amusing in the year-end report so go check it out.

And for those who, like me, are concerned with those proceeding in forma pauperis: Only those represented by lawyers are expected to file online. Those who don't have lawyers may submit in paper and court officials will scan the documents in. 

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I said at dinner that I didn't understand how we called things "human rights" and then we said that some people don't deserve them.

That was what got me in trouble at Thanksgiving dinner.

The fact that I have a universal conception of human rights that's not tied to citizenship. The logical consistency of "All men are created equal" extending beyond merely those I agree with or those who were born here or those who jumped through every hoop you designed to determine whether or not they were "worthy". 

All. People. Deserve. Human. Rights.

Oh, and I got mocked and told I was wasting my life if I went into public service and needed to find a "real job" instead of helping people. Thanks parents! Thanks relatives! Love it. Really, really love it.

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Reasons I look like a good student:

I can recall a few Supreme Court cases where the tests created come from concurring opinions, not the majority.