Chad S. Beckett

Ai will keep lawyers in business until the heat death of the universe.

Justice Robert H Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, shaking hands with President Franklin Roosevelt.

The President can throw the Constitution overboard, but we can’t.
-Robert H. Jackson

Photograph of Supreme Court Justice/Chief Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert H Jackson

Friends of liberty will find grim instruction in the rise of the Nazi party….Jurists will find admonition in the way the rule of law was set aside, an independent judiciary destroyed, and party and class use of the courts as instruments of political policy was established.
-Justice Robert H Jackson.

I don’t know what rules operate in your jurisdiction, but, in Illinois, jurors are paid a daily fee whenever they come to court. They check the night before by calling a telephone number. If they then come to court the next day (assuming they are required to appear) they receive that daily fee.

I’m sure you know this but…Sometimes, *you* (and the others who represent potential jurors about to be paneled) are *the* incentive to resolving a case.

Cover art for the DVD version of the 1970’s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series “The Roman Holidays.”

Here’s another:

Norman Rockwell’s first “Freedom of Speech” painting, used to support OP’s opinion that the principles laid down in Robert H. Jackson’s 1940 speech “The Federal Prosecutor” represent the best of American justice and should be followed by all attorneys who aspire to represent “the People.”

The principles laid down in Robert H. Jackson’s 1940 speech “The Federal Prosecutor” represent the best of American justice and should be followed by all attorneys who aspire to represent “the People.”

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I still prefer WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) or 5.2 (Windows). Both got the job done exceptionally well.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- Northanger Abbey

Happy 250th birthday, #JaneAusten

Still from the firm “When Harry Met Sally…” starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Directed by Rob Reiner, RIP 12-14-2025

Cinema will find a way. 💕

“People like you make me feel so old inside”?

#uncapthehouse

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3. Nowhere Fast (“I’d like to drop my trousers to the world, I am a man of means, of slender means…”) 2. Barbarism Begins at Home (“Unruly boys who will not grow up must be taken in hand…”) 1. The Headmaster’s Ritual (“Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools, spineless swine, cemented minds…”)

Obviously any smith song would do, but frankly that song isn’t even my third pick from that *album* using your criteria. My top three choices from Meat is Murder to disorientate baseball fans would be (with first verse lyric):

Alas, relief not requested on appeal is generally deemed forfeit. But perhaps the trial court will oblige nevertheless.

I’d like to think those of us at the trial court level are reflective if not chastened on R&R but too many variables prevent a guarantee that this will happen.

I’m pretty fond of When Harry Met Sally myself.

No, but the supreme leader may decree that life is simply taking and not giving, England is his, and it owes him a living.

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic God Only Knows (Remastered 1999)

Pet Sounds all day, man. RIP
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A more workable solution would be implementation of the Wyoming Rule.
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Congressional Apportionment Amendment - Wikipedia

Ironically, this issue is addressed in the *original* First Amendment to the Constitution. 2/

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Almost everything people complain about re: the EC can be resolved if Congress will just pass legislation to UNCAP THE HOUSE. It is ridiculous that 435 district legislators should represent 350M+ people, and that nothing had been done about this imbalance in nearly 100 years. 1/

Sweet Corn Alabama

“Paper bags for Sgt. Pepper.”

Well not exactly - I’m the judge in charge of the probate docket in my jurisdiction 👨‍⚖️

First thing I do when I go to work, but not at random (going to the Will cabinet to make sure the latest filed Wills are in fact originals).

If you have a deal with a person who later dies, and you assign the claim on that deal to somebody else, the “somebody else” had better be the one to file a claim against the dead person’s estate; Illinois courts will not play “word games” to avoid dismissing such a claim when the wrong party sues.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. -Pope Francis