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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/14080859001?isVid=1I recorded this interview in March for the Afghan T.V. show, PUL. Mariam Nawabi is the host of the show and it airs in Kabul (maybe dad will see it in a better streaming version) My part is at...

I don't write much about what my father is doing in Afghanistan, my poor country is in ruins and what could have an opportunity for a remarkable turn around in 2002 was pissed away by the Iraq invasion and just general reactionary bullshit.  Instead of...

I spent some time trying to find today's decisions (and there are two notable ones for the criminal people out there).  Since it took me a while, I thought I'd do a public service and link to them here.US v. Comstock The Court upholds the law passed by...

I've written here and here about my thoughts on blogging and what its about.  I'm still a bit shocked when I come across posts like this one which talks about getting rejected as a guest blogger.  Rejected?  As a guest blogger?  Are there lots of...

A disbarred lawyer said I was stupid for saying the Arizona immigration law, 1070, was racist.  He then called me a liar when I said I'd read it.  He was incensed because I refused to engage in an email debate with him over 1) whether I've read the...

This is another guest post written by my former co-worker, Kathy Manley.  Kathy is an attorney at Kindlon & Shanks in Albany, New York. A kick ass firm with kick ass lawyers. When I was in New York, Kathy was the primary writer, doing appeals, motions, etc. She's...

What you are about to read was written as a comment to my repost of Norm Pattis's mother's day post.  Anyway, the purpose of my post was not to call anyone in particular out, but I wanted people, mothers in particular, to think of all of this in a different...

Because I am a masochist.Today, someone posted the video from MO's finest that was circulating in the blogoworld last week.  Here are some amazing comments from the peanut gallery to which I subscribe. What you are about to read might be profoundly disturbing so...

In a way, I really am a brand new baby lawyer.  I am working my way back up the food chain, giving up the notion that I will be trying any homicides or multi-defendant federal drug cases anytime soon after digging my law degree out of the back of...

Mom's read this blog.  Mom's who don't get it, who are confused by how a woman who struggled to have children and seems so 'normal' in every other way could have EVER defended terrible people, and how could a woman who seems so 'nice' could want, desperately...

I hate the burqua - that long, flowing, shapeless garment that is the symbol of women's oppression in muslim countries.  Yes, I know, there are apologists who say its a choice, it allows a woman to protect her natural beauties which are meant for her...

I do a fair bit of immigration work these days.  It's not all form filling and filing, as the myth goes.  (I wish it were. Wouldn't that be a great way to make a living?) It's actually incredibly complicated with the various statutes,...