Legal Excitement

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   I just got a personal email from Michael Newdow. "I will be speaking on Family Law from 11:00-11:50 on April 21 at 400 Mrak Hall Drive, MLK Hall, room 2004. I will then be speaking at a program hosted by the Christian Legal Society at noon. I don't know the location of that talk, but I assume it will be nearby." I'm not so excited about family law, but hopefully his talk for the Christian Legal Society will be interesting.

   Also this weekend I will be at a Model UN conference in Oxnard, representing the United States on the Legal Committee, discussing the Applicability of the Geneva Convention [to "unlawful combatants"], Eliminating International Terrorism, and "Progressive Development of International Law relating to the New International Economic Order" (WTF?). Its gonna be good times. I get to spend the weekend justifying the controvercial US detentions in Guatanamo Bay and getting everyone hepped up about the War on Terrorism.


Picture of the Day

two or three days ago at The Trees apartment complex

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[ashael.livejournal.com]

Who exactly is Michael Newdow?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Currently students in elementry through high school here are led every morning in a pledge of allegiance, whereupon they pledge allegiance to "the United States of America, One Nation indivisible under God..." Michael Newdow filed a case that went up to the Supreme Court alleging that inclusion of "under God" in the official pledge of allegiance constitutes a government endorsement of a particular religious view.