Address by Judge Jed S. Rakoff
On August 18, 2019, my friend and long-ago law partner, Judge Jed S. Rakoff, gave an address at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island at the… Read More »Address by Judge Jed S. Rakoff
On August 18, 2019, my friend and long-ago law partner, Judge Jed S. Rakoff, gave an address at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island at the… Read More »Address by Judge Jed S. Rakoff
It was unsurprising, perhaps inevitable, that much of the commentary about the tragedy in Orlando would pass through a prism of preexisting political positions. Republicans tended to view it as a result of the ineffectiveness of the Administration’s responses to ISIS, while Democrats associated it with Republican unwillingness to support any form of gun control legislation. Having our own distinctive prism, we are inclined to believe that there is something to the assertions of each, but perhaps not as much as either appears to claim.Read More »Blog No. 103. Reflections on Orlando