Alito at VA Law Conference on Service, 1/31/09

I’m sure that the Virginia Law School’s 10th Annual Conference on Justice and The Law was set up long before President Obama’s pre-inaugural focus on Public Service, but it will be interesting to see how Associate Justice Alito, and the legal community, respond to the issue this weekend in light of current economic events and [...]

Podcast of Toobin interview from 01/22/09

Toobin – and his mother Marlene Sanders, who is also a journalist and covered the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon B Johnson – were interviewed together yesterday on mediabistro.com.   You can listen to a podcast of the interview, which includes Sanders discussing her “motherly indignation” over the amount of airtime Toobin received Tuesday, as well as [...]

‘The Nine’ for Book Groups

Is your book group interested in reading ‘The Nine’? We will have a limited number of Book Club Kits available to the public, borrowable from the Library.  Each kit includes 15 soft-cover copies of  ‘The Nine’ (with a new epilogue) and background information about the book and author.  The books comes in a canvas bag [...]