Pretty far down in the CLB’s “random quotes” section there is John Donne’s famous Meditation XVII, best known by the opening phrase that “no man is an island.” Donne’s thought continues to “any man’s death diminishes me.” Donne’s observations are not applicable to the death of Salvador Ramos of Uvalde, Texas. We are not diminished […]
My first contact with the name Sabrina Bell came in 2019 when she and other (male) downstate judges and a magistrate partied hard after driving up to Indianapolis for a judicial conference. After far too many hours of drinking and bar-hopping a group of four found themselves at a downtown White Castle Restaurant around 3:15 […]
It was my first year of law school in early January of 1973 when the SCOTUS handed down its Roe and Doe Opinions effectively recognizing (or creating?) a constitutional right to abortion. Only Associate Justices William Rehnquist (a Nixon appointee) and “Whizzer” White (a Kennedy appointee) dissented. I made note of many within the law […]