FReeper jmstein7 made Law Review! Needs input!

9-19-03 | jmstein7

[jmstein7]

Dear FReeper friends,

I'm writing to let you know that I just found out that I (retroactively) made Law Review at my school (#10 of 308 in my class).

I want to thank all the FReeper law experts who gave me advice and help last year when I was a 1L. I plan to pay you all back by taking our fight to Law Review.

Anyway, I am looking for a topic for my "note", and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I was thinking about writing something about election law (Bush v. Gore, Lautenberg, 9th Circuit recall decision, etc.) and the recent intrusion of the judiciary into the political branches of government.

Any help/hints/advice?

Thank you all!

[Seeking the truth]

Congratulations! I will take back everything I've been saying about you! :)

[jmstein7]

At long last :)

[RepubMommy]

I'm not a lawyer, but I am a Jersey resident and was downright appalled over what was pulled here last year with the Torch-Lautenberg fiasco. Put important emphasis as to what the impact of democracy and elections would be like if parties were allowed to regularly change candidates if they did not like the way the mid election polls were going.

[CGVet58]

first off, Congrats!!!

how about the recent filibuster of appellate court nominees? (though i'm just a layman...) It seems to me that a Republican Senator could - after one of the many vote-to-end-filibuster actions by the Dems - have immediately called the Senate to the floor claiming a violation of procedure (pointing out the obvious, that a supermajority was being forced onto an issue clearly requiring only a majority up-down vote as stipulated in our Constitution).

I've asked the above several times, yet get no clear cut answers. Perhaps you can help?

thanks, and many blessings to you in your career path.

Juan

[jmstein7]

So, we (my family) went out to celebrate that last night (in Manhattan), and who should we run into in the parking garage when we were waiting for their car? Geraldo Rivera. He was a really nice guy.

Anyway, to cut to the chase... my mom had had a bit of champagne, and she blurts out that I made law review. Geraldo is a lawyer (went to Brooklyn Law), and he strongly suggested the Patriot Act as a topic.

He started to elaborate, but his BENTLEY arrived. What a sweet car!

[jmstein7]

How about a query into why the Founding Fathers decided that impeachments should be tried by the Senate -- one of the political branches? Why not let congress as a whole impeach, and then have a jury trial (with jurors drawn from a national pool)? There is prejudice inherent in delegating to a political branch such authority -- and, unlike Senators, most ordinary folks do not have a horse in the race.

Then I would, of course, I would look at the Clinton case and determine whether a jury of reasonable people would have convicted, which would have changed history.

[XHogPilot]

Thanks for the link to Lincoln's Cooper Union Address of 1860 -- after 143 years so little has changed.

BTW, the entire website Abraham Lincoln Online is very informative.

[Movemout]

I think there is a good written possibility in the subject of why law and layers have become to be held in disdain. This country is founded on rules of law and for them to have fallen into disrepute is a danger to us all.

[LJLucido]

Thanks for the ping. I hardly ever log in under this screen name anymore, and just happened to see this today.

My goal during law school was to avoid Law Review at all costs, and I succeeded wildly. But if you can't be talked out of it, then there are any number of excellent topics you can write about. The head of our Federalist Society wrote a published article on the Austrian school of economics. A few other fellow Federalists turned out some equally scholarly, if incomprehensible, essays.

Good luck!

Larry Lucido

[Coleus]

what other screen name do you use?