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A federal judge in Wisconsin is making headlines by trashing Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts and the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. This is likely what he wanted. The first thing you should know about U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman is that he is a zealous and habitual flamethrower. His latest diatribe, published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, was designed to shock with the incendiary title, “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.” Using the word “assault” was an invective guaranteed to conjure up images of criminal behavior, although that is nowhere in Adelman’s article....

If the state provides free IDs, is there really an “unjustified burden” on poor voters?To better understand the contrast between an activist, liberal judge who refuses to follow the law and a judge who understands that his job is to follow precedent and the Constitution, consider two recent federal cases on voter-ID laws. On Tuesday, federal-district-court judge Lynn Adelman — a Clinton appointee, former Democratic state senator, and former Legal Aid Society lawyer — held that Wisconsin’s voter-ID requirement violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, because it places “an unjustified burden on...

Ken Adelman Backing Obama By Michael D. Shear First Colin Powell. Now Ken Adelman? Adelman is the latest Republican foreign-policy heavyweight to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, telling the New Yorker's George Packer that he intends to vote for the Democrat in two weeks. "When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird," Adelman wrote, according to Packer. "Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I've concluded...

One of our favorite Reagan anecdotes is told by Kenneth Adelman about what happened when Secretary of State Haig tried to get President Reagan to agree to the Law of the Sea Treaty. This happened at one of the first meetings of Reagan's National Security Council, when the hapless Mr. Haig suggested the treaty was, as Mr. Adelman has written, "something we didn't like but had to accept, since it had emerged over the previous decade through a 150-nation negotiation." Mr. Haig then lunged into details about the options and sub-options for revising the document.The president looked puzzled, then...

It's blocked, but here is the URL - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spent her time in Brazil late last month lavishing all sorts of high praise on the country's leftist president during her Latin American tour to promote the administration's free trade agenda. Despite his strong communist bona fides, President Lula da Silva was clearly being feted by Miss Rice as a strategic ally to balance the antics of Hugo Chavez's oil-rich Venezuela. But Brazil presents the U.S. with a set of challenges -- commercially and geopolitically -- as serious as those posed by Venezuela or Cuba. Did Miss Rice miss the target?

Judge Throws Out Suit Against Pilot Singer Barbra Streisand's lawsuit against a helicopter pilot accusing him of violating her privacy was thrown out of court Wednesday. Not only that, but she's going to have to pay Ken Adelman's legal fees -- estimated somewhere in the six-figure range. Sweet. "It was a clean sweep," Adelman (with wife and pilot Gabrielle, above) said after the ruling. "We didn't win just on a technicality, but on all the substantive issues. The judge ruled that what we did was free speech and not an infringement of privacy." Adelman, a 39-year old Silicon Valley millionaire, takes the pictures...

A Los Angeles judge today threw out Barbra Streisand's $10 million suit against a California environmental group that posted a photo of the singer's cliffside Malibu estate on its web site. In a 46-page tentative decision, the summary from which you'll find below, Superior Court Judge Allan J. Goodman declared that the aerial photo's publication was protected by the First Amendment and, to boot, was not "highly offensive to a reasonable person." Swatting away Streisand's claim that her privacy was violated, Goodman stated, "As a matter of law, there is nothing private or personal" about the photo, a copy of...

A JUDGE today threw out a $US10 million lawsuit brought by superstar Barbra Streisand against an amateur photographer who snapped her cliff-top mansion from the air. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman dismissed the notoriously private diva's invasion of privacy suit, ruling that her action infringed on the right to freedom of speech. Software millionaire and photographer Ken Adelman said he was "ecstatic" that the suit filed against him and his wife Gabriella in May had failed. "It was a clean sweep,"he said. Adelman said he and his wife had taken pictures of Streisand's home that overlooks the coast...

<p>Barbra Streisand thinks that people, people who fly past her house with cameras, are the nosiest people in the world.</p> <p>Claiming her privacy was violated, the diva actress and singer has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Silicon Valley millionaire and environmentalist Ken Adelman. The suit demands that he remove an aerial photograph of her oceanfront Malibu mansion from his Web site, www.californiacoastline.org .</p>

New trial ordered for Ted Oswald Adelman finds jury biased against son in epic crime spree By LISA SINKlsink@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: March 27, 2003 Waukesha - Citing juror bias, Federal Judge Lynn Adelman has ordered a new trial for Ted Oswald, convicted with his father in a notorious Waukesha County crime spree that left a police captain dead. New Trial Ordered Ted Oswald Photo/File Reaction At best, it's disturbing - Diane Lutz,widow of slain Waukesha Police Capt. James Lutz A federal trial judge has effectively overturned the state Supreme Court. - Lee S. Dreyfus Jr., ,circuit judge who presided over...

Here in Taiwan, I'm hearing reports on BBC about some remarks by Ken Adelman. Can't find a news story, however.