Down with the law reviews, up with the blogs. Or, so says Justice Kennedy in this Wall Street Journal story. “Professors are back in the act with blogs,” he proclaims, stating that his clerks regularly survey the blogosphere to see how academics view the cases that are before the Court. I feel sure that they spent hours focusing intensely on my Supreme Court preview! In other news: Speeding officers. The News and Observer ran this story this morning, reporting on a 20/20 story that found “troopers, sheriff’s deputies from Wake and Edgecombe counties and one unidentified law enforcement officer . . . speeding near downtown Raleigh.” The story notes that one officer was traveling at 80 m.p.h. en route to a donut shop while another traveled 75 m.p.h. in a 45 m.p.h zone on his way to work. The Highway Patrol reports that it has “taken appropriate action” regarding the troopers involved. New sexual assault survey data. The Chicago Tribune reported here on a new medical journal article that concludes that “[n]early 1 in 10 young Americans between ages 14 and 21 acknowledges having perpetrated an act of sexual violence at least once, and 4% of a nationally representative sample of American kids reported attempting or completing rape.” The study used a relatively broad definition of sexual violence, but still, holy cow! And the problem is not limited to one slice or strata (stratum?) of society. In fact, the study concluded, “Latino and African American youths, and those from low-income families, [...]
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