Also, see photos from WPA work at the Jackson Barracks.

Down to the CDB and French Quarter where flags were waving, people high fiving, smiling, shouting, hugging, crying. Bourbon street as crowded as I have ever seen it. Oz off the hook. It was all overwhelming in a great way.

I feel lucky to have been there; Sunday’s victory and the ensuing gaiety was a real moment, watershed perhaps. The Saints victory, combined with the landslide election of Mitch Landrieu, the first white mayor since the 1970s, signals that perhaps the divisive racism that has so hurt this once great city might be receding into the past, as it well should. While the path ahead, for New Orleans and this country, remains difficult, perhaps now it can be tread with a renewed sense of pride and purpose.

From the Big Easy,

~WD

At first I figured that it was just a matter of timing; my daily schedule is hardly ever the same. But when I thought back to the first time I saw it and then to today, I realized that both times I noticed a car pulling out of the abandoned house’s driveway. In both instances the mystery cat poked out from under the neighbor’s house, and today, she even came out completely. The poor thing has bushy wild hair and is indeed quite dirty. I bent down to pet it, but it got spooked, so I just stood still and slowly it came up to me.

While this cat may be just one of many feral cats in the city, a part of me wonders if it used to belong to the now abandoned house. Perhaps whenever it hears a car in the driveway it pokes out expectantly, hoping, perhaps, that its long lost master has returned. While I probably won’t ever know what happened at that abandoned house, I can’t help but speculating about this dirty kitty and its sad fate.

Yes, I know I’m a law student, and I read cases all the time, but to those of you who are not law students, I’d like to encourage you to take a look at my hilights of this very important case. When’s the last time you read a Supreme Court opinion anyway?

The majority basically said that the First Amendment prohibits a ban on political advertisements funded by corporate money. The dissent claims that the major corrupting potential of such advertising subverts the very principles which the First Amendment seeks to protect. Make no mistake; this is a case about the very fundamental values of our political system.

I hope you will take a look at what I have hilighted. I’ve attempted to draw your attention to enough background so that you will have a deeper understanding of each side’s best arguments. If you are going to read the document in the embedded Google Docs viewer, I recommend that you click the full screen icon in the top right… the resulting reading experience is much better. You may also download the file and read it in your preferred PDF viewer.

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