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When the streets are flooding and the rain is coming down (as happened last Tuesday) and there are people who feel a obligation to you to travel in to downtown from their homes, there’s a right way to handle the situation and a wrong way.
The right way:
Some parts of town are underwater. It is still [...]
Mark Bennett | April 28, 2009
America loves its mothers and its veterans and its administrative assistants, but America loves its victims more. Seven times as much, in fact, as any of these—this is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
Nobody loves victims more than those who make their living off the Cult of the Victim. Take, for example, Andy Kahan of [...]
Mark Bennett | April 28, 2009
Soon to be ex-prosecutor George Weissfisch’s second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ideas for improvement of the Harris County DA’s Office (here’s the first in the series):
#2 INTAKE
There is no need to screen cases at intake by hand.
Weissfisch Solution: We create a macro on the computer just like the macro for
Mark Bennett | April 27, 2009
The last time the Texas House of Representatives impeached a judge was 1975. O.P. Carrillo of Duval County was the respondent. Leon Jaworski prosecuted the impeachment in the Senate.
I’ve been hanging around the Texas Capitol since midday waiting for the Texas House of Representatives Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee to start hearing House Resolution 480, [...]
Mark Bennett | April 27, 2009
Please, would you toss a few bucks to M.D. Anderson Hospital’s ovarian cancer research program on behalf of Ellen Alexander? Ellen is a U.S. District Court case manager and one of the world’s nicest humans; she’s joining U.S. Probation Officer Becky Pope in the Sprint for Life 5K Run & Walk.
Don’t worry if you [...]
Mark Bennett | April 25, 2009
“It is important that the committee be made aware of the public’s desire for impeachment,” [Texas Representative Lon] Burnam said. “I encourage anyone who wishes to see justice done in this matter to come to room E2.010 in the capitol on Monday afternoon and register ‘for’ House Resolution 480.”
(Email press release, via Grits.)
I’ll be in [...]
Mark Bennett | April 25, 2009
Talking about waterboarding and other torture.
I’m allergic to listening to or watching myself.
Would one of you please listen and tell me who it was that Judge Wise claims verified that “enhanced interrogation” led to an attack being foiled?
Gracias.
Mark Bennett | April 24, 2009
I got in a furious 140-character-at-a-time argument on Twitter with Mark Jakubik, author of the Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog (and the Pennsylvania Estate Planning Blog, and the Philadelphia Litigation Blog, and the Pennsylvania Family Law Blog . . . hrm) yesterday about waterboarding and torture. Stepping back, I had to ask myself: Why am [...]
Mark Bennett | April 23, 2009
When I say, “we should indict them all,” I really do mean all of them. That includes Nancy Pelosi, the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who claims (incredibly and contrary to the recollection of Representative Porter J. Goss of Florida) that her Republican counterpart, and the top Republican and Democrat on the [...]
Mark Bennett | April 23, 2009
81R8266 JSA-F By: Burnam H.R. No. 480
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature has exclusive power to present articles of impeachment against a state officer under Section 1, Article XV, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 665, Government [...]
