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Last week, my old law firm won a spectacular court victory against my law school prohibiting it from engaging in racial discrimination in admissions. Thank heaven I've graduated. I don't think I could take the piety and hysteria now engulfing the University of Michigan. Explaining the importance of discriminating against citizens on the basis of their race, Michigan President Lee Bollinger told The New Yorker magazine: "I happen to be rereading 'Richard II.' ... There's an exchange between Gaunt and Bolingbroke, father and son, just as the son is being banished. The advice the father gives the son -- ...

The only real news from the last week of the constitutional crisis is that no one on TV knows how to read a court opinion. Since I was sick in bed from the exhaustion of being right so much this past month, I had to rely on the newscasters to tell me what the real Supreme Court opinion said on Tuesday night rather than reading it myself up at my computer. For 45 minutes after the decision was released, the talking heads still hadn’t the faintest idea what the court had done. After 20 minutes of their telling us ...

FEW METHODS of becoming a trusted TV legal "expert" are as guaranteed as being consistently wrong in your legal analysis. Smugness in your wrong predictions is especially valued. In the week before the real Supreme Court vacated the Florida kangaroo court's original crack-pot interpretation of "seven days" in Florida election law to mean "19 days," there was a lot of both. You would think that one week of wrong predictions about whether the U.S. Supreme Court would even deign to hear the case might have humbled the "experts." Alas, no. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, finally emerging from his ...

Just because the door is closing, every legitimate legal process available to you has been shut down, Warren Christopher has returned to his formaldehyde jar, David Boies is getting hives, and even Alan Dershowitz has finally admitted that your cause is hopeless, this is no time to quit if you care about your country -- as I think you do, Al. You and your mentor Bill Clinton have done more damage to the Democratic Party than Newt Gingrich could have done in a lifetime. But in the past month you have really outdone yourself. Once merely comedic, you have ...

As Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin reportedly said: "It doesn’t matter who votes. It only matters who counts the ballots." That’s just what Al Gore is betting on as he demands his third recount in Florida, this one limited to Democrat strongholds. The vote-stealers’ very brazenness has already begun to pay dividends in the public perception of this crisis. Note how we have seamlessly moved from George W. Bush’s being the President-elect–subject to a recount by sore loser Al Gore in one of the states he lost–to "Election deadlock!" If Gore had won Florida and it were George Bush now demanding ...

Dan Rather's zany performance election night, with his odd analogies and too-early predictions of state results, prompted a NBC Saturday Night Live parody of Rather doing a CBS Sports update: "Good evening folks, let's get right to the NBA because we've got more action than a pair of jumper cables at a Mexican funeral. In Phoenix, the Heat lead the Suns from Miami by the score 64-57 in the third quarter. CBS News now projects that the Phoenix Suns have won this game. When all the results are in the Suns will take this game and the Heat will take ...

ELECTIONS IN CLINTONVILLE I have a sick, sinking feeling. It's impeachment all over again. But this time it's about the results of a presidential election. Like President Clinton, Al Gore is willing to precipitate a constitutional crisis to hold on to power. The world's most successful method for transferring power is about to become another O.J. slow-speed car chase. I don't care about taxes, I don't care about abortion, I don't care about affirmative action -- I just want to be rid of these people. Al Gore's end game is to delay confirmation of the Florida vote for as long ...

President of the United States   %Report Bush / Cheney(REP) Gore / Lieberman(DEM) Browne / Olivier(LIB) Nader / LaDuke(GRE) Harris / Trowe(SWP) Hagelin / Goldhaber(LAW) Buchanan / Foster(REF) McReynolds / Hollis(SPF) Phillips / Frazier(CPF) Moorehead / La Riva(WWP) Total   2,905,723 2,904,932 15,652 94,406 551 2,238 16,946 618 1,346 1,728 Percent 100.0% 48.9% 48.9% 0.3% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Recount Indicated

I just received a "scare call." However, it was on a topic and in an area that I was unaware these calls were taking place. I live at the southwestern end of the "I-4 Corridor," the area that runs from Daytona through Orlando and down to Tampa-St. Pete, and will supposedly decide who wins the presidential race in Florida. At about 4:00 PM EST our phone rang. I did not hear the whole call since my wife answered, but she passed the phone to me so I could get the gist of the call. It was the recorded voice of ...