Milt Policzer

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

I’ve been thinking a lot about James Bond lately. It’s not because I’m a Bond fan. Womanizing action heroes aren’t my thing, but I won’t think less of you if you like them. What I do, however, enjoy is change, variety and originality. You’ve got to admit — love them or not — that all the Bond movies are pretty much the same. Variations on a theme. So I was pretty excited when the news broke that the producers of the Bond films had sold the Bond rights to Amazon.

2 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Evil thought: There’s more than one way to blackmail a law firm. The White House has convinced (extorted?) a group of Big Law firms to pledge millions of dollars of associate slave labor in exchange for not having their security clearances revoked. (Pause for a moment if you haven’t already to consider whether this has anything to do with security since the law firms were suddenly secure again after they caved.)The cowed Big Law firms (as opposed to the uncowed — lioned?

3 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Finally, a Trump-supporting conservative congressman has had the courage to introduce legislation that everyone should agree on. A couple of years ago, a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, named Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling banning the sale of an abortion drug. It was one of a number of rulings in cases affecting the entire country that for some reason just had to be heard in Amarillo, Texas. You can’t blame lawyers for wanting to appear before their favorite judges.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

What exactly is a constitutional crisis? We keep hearing about constitutional crises these days, but no one warning us has told us what exactly one looks like. How do we know we’re in one? How do we prepare for one? Do we need to stock up on eggs? Are weapons involved? Do constitutional crises get names like hurricanes? Will we be taken by surprise if there’s no National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? Is not having the NOAA the crisis? It seems important to be prepared for a crisis.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Sometimes I think there’s too much pressure to study things — anything — just to fill space (online or on paper). Case in point: last week presented us with a “study” of Kim Kardashian’s “facework” on Instagram.