pickThis is such an interesting book. It starts out as memoir of Yale law professor Kenji Yoshino‘s younger days as he processed his “otherness” in American society as a Japanese-American, gay man. He talks about covering—attempting to act as white and straight as possible—then goes into related legal issues. There‘s a gentleness to his writing and some of the legalities are more important than ever in our current moment.
so-soWhy SO-SO? Because Sutton is a judge & he writes like a judge 😂. It seems directed at law students-which I am not, unless you count self-education-instead of laymen, & he glosses over the racism behind forced sterilization.
His basic premise is that often your State Supreme Court may be a more viable option than THE Supreme Court.
Learned a lot, though. Like how Jehovah‘s Witnesses played a huge part in our free speech/expression debates.
If we hold fast to grammar and the idea that grammar rules have never changed and therefore original intent and meaning can be deduced through written text, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Maine become unconstitutional and cease to exist in modern America. Just think about that for a minute.
#CeceliaWatson #Semicolon #law #grammar #punctuation #WestVirginia #Kentucky #Maine #WTF
When you have your next 18 books picked and so many more to add to the list! #somanybooks #solittletime #toread
pickThis was amazing, I listened on #audio and it contained recordings from Ruth Bader Ginsberg herself, as well as chapters read by the fantastic Linda Lavin. I learned a bit, remembered some special moments, and mourned for both the person and the American hero that she was. So blessed to share a birthday with her!
pickThis book features a collection of strange and many ridiculous laws. A quick and interesting read that will have you shaking your head and asking, wait—what? There is no shortage of senseless laws today. Just look at what local legislators and Congress are doing with their time and our taxes. They aren‘t creating and passing laws to improve quality of life.
pickSo much truth and to know how flawed our judicial system still is is sickening. We can do better as a country.
pickSarah Langford is a practising barrister specialising in criminal and family law. This absorbing and thought-provoking memoir looks at 11 of her cases (details anonymised for privacy reasons) to set out the limitations of the justice system together with how it changed the respective defendants lives and the lessons that Langford took from them and in the increasingly crowded legal market stands out for looking at the English Family Court.
