This analysis begins in 2016 when Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in a Texas hunting lodge cabin. President Obama, then in the final year of his second (and final) term submitted to the Senate his nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland. Fast forward to September 18, 2020 and the death of […]
It was a good 20 years or so ago when a local (Hammond) cop lived so near to me as within an adjacent block. There was often a “take-home” squad car in front of the officer’s residence. I took some comfort in that and assumed that the neighborhood was at least minimally safer by reason […]
While I intended Part Two of the “White Like Me” series to be a review of my personal history in matters of race and to thereby give context for my opinions, that review has been time-consuming and more difficult to express than I had anticipated. Meanwhile the tragedy of Breonna Taylor has become a timely […]
As of this writing only a few days have passed since the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after years of illness and at the ripe old age of 87. On the basis of mortality tables and personal medical history her death was hardly a surprise. Justice Ginsburg will be remembered as […]
This short Article pertains to the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, the 25th of August, 2020. Kyle Rittenhouse, a youth of 17 years from Antioch, Illinois took two lives with gunfire and injured a third man. There was no police involvement. There was no harm to a Black person. These circumstances take the matter […]
This brief Featured Article is provoked by local bureaucratic nonsense in the form of “Lake County Health Department Covid-19 Public Health Order 20-01.” This “Order” from the medical doctor “health officer” of the Lake County Health Department cites the purported statutory authority of IC 16-20-1 and IC 16-41-9. To its credit, the “Order” uses the […]
Introduction: The “White Like Me” series will include the observations and opinions of an aging White male lawyer and some statistics and opinions of others relative to race relations in these troubled times. In the Introduction to the CLB written nearly five years ago, I announced that race relations would be a likely topic. In […]
As of this writing Curtis T. Hill, Jr. is midway though his 30-day disciplinary suspension from the practice of law. On June 18, 2020 he will be reinstated automatically to the practice of law. Presumably, he will resume on that date his role as the duly elected Attorney General of the State of Indiana. AG […]
Before May 18, 2020 the most recent insanity defense case in the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana (SCOTSI) was Barcroft v. State, 111 N.E.3d 997 (Ind. 2018). See the “Murder in Church” Featured Article posted December 11, 2018 in the Calumet Law Blog. Lori Barcroft was seen here as both evil and mentally […]
In 1993 while Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware, he had a staffer named Tara Reade. Tara has now gone public with the accusation that she was sexually assaulted (groped and digitally penetrated) by Senator Biden. Joe denies all. The CLB offers the observation that an accusation of sexual assault is not self-proving, and […]