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Art Lien
Being there, drawing directly, hoping for reality.
Interests: Drawing, Illustration, Bicycles and Mandolins
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Today's Orders ...and sketch
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The Supreme Court today added five new cases to next term's docket including one concerning the constitutionality of prayer at town board meetings. SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston has more here. Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at CourtArtist.com
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A Day Trip to Philly
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I got a last minute call to go to Philadelphia to sketch the sentencing of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell - a case I have not followed and therefore am thankfully unable to comment on - so I hit the road... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Kagan's Roundup Ready and Breyer's in a Sling
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A couple sketches from the Supreme Court yesterday: Justice Kagan annouced the Court's unanimous opinion supporting Monsanto's patent rights on its herbicide resistant genetically altered Roundup Ready seed. NYT's Adam Liptak has the story here. It was also Justice Breyer's... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Robel Philipos, Dzokhar Tsarnaev's Friend
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Robel Philipos, arrested last week and charged with making false statements, appeared before a federal magistrate in Boston. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler allowed Philipos to go free on supervised bond. The above sketch shows Philipos with his lawyers and... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Before the Justice Take the Bench
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A little sketch, doodle really, of the Supreme Court press waiting for the Justices to come to the bench and announce the day's opinions. From left to right, Mark Walsh of Education Week, Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Time for a Tricycle?
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Just kidding, I'm really very sorry to hear that Justice Breyer had fall from his bicycle over the weekend and broke his shoulder. Twice before he has had serious bicycle mishaps and has always climbed back in the saddle. I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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HIV, Prostitution and the First Amendment
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Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the U.S. government can require NGO's working overseas to fight HIV and AIDS to espouse an anti-prostitution policy as a requirement to receiving funds. The case is Agency for International Development v.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Remind Me To Update My Will
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After federal employee Warren Hillman divorced his wife Judy Maretta and married Jaqueline Hillman he never changed the beneficiary on his life insurance. When he died the approximately $125,000. benefit went to his ex-wife. Maybe, as Justice Breyer asked, "he... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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The Indian Child Welfare Act
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The Supreme Court Justices had a tough time yesterday trying to balance the interests of a child, known as Baby Veronica, with the shameful history of removing American Indian children from their families. The Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Of Chocolate Cookies, Baseball Bats and the Amazon
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In considering whether human genes may be patented the Justices of the Supreme Court searched near and far for analogies to help them grasp the complexities of bio-science. Here are a few sketches from the oral arguments along with a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Sketches of DOMA Oral Arguments
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The above sketch shows members of the Supreme Court bar waiting on the ground floor before being led up to the "great hall" were they will stand in line before being seated to hear oral arguments in U.S. v. Windsor,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Sketches of Proposition 8 Oral Arguments
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The Supreme Court today heard arguments in the first of two same-sex marriage cases. I'm just going to post my sketches without comment as I'm totaly beat. But glad to have been there. The case is Hollingsworth v. Perry Tom... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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STUDENTS, IMPORT AND SELL TEXTBOOKS FOR FUN & PROFIT !!
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Supap Kirtsaeng, a native of Thailand attending college in the U.S., found a clever way to help pay his way. He had his family in Thailand buy and ship to him textbooks which he then resold at a profit netting... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Arizona Voter ID Law v. Federal "Motor Voter"
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, right, watched as Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne defended Proposition 200, a state law that requires additional proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. O'Connor was on a 9th Circuit Court... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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From the Dustbin: SCOTUS Anthrax Scare
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When anthrax started showing up in the mail shortly after 9/11 it was detected in the Supreme Court as well. The Court kept to its schedule by moving a few blocks away to convene in the D.C. Circuit's ceremonial courtroom.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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The End of the Civil Rights Era?
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Notables of the civil rights movement sat in the audience as the Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act, Shelby County v. Holder. From 1965 when President Johnson signed it into law to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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DNA "Fingerprinting"?
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Maryland and 27 other states have laws that permit the taking of a DNA sample, usually by cheek swab, at the time of arrest, much like fingerprinting a suspect. Maryland's high court vacated the conviction of Alonzo King whose DNA,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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The View From the Frieze
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I drew this from a great little scale model of the courtroom on exhibit on the ground floor of the Supreme Court building. For something like this you have to get a head start. I'll finished up on argument day. Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Sandy Kossin's Courtroom Sketches
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Another great discovered thanks to the blog Today's Inspiration. I don't know much about the artist Sandy Kossin, but these sketches make me want to find out more. Really exceptional in capturing the animating moment. Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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I Am Guilty, Your Honor
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A sad day yesterday as a tearful Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty in a courtroom filled with friends and family, including his father, Jesse Jackson Sr. The Judge who accepted Jackson's plea, Robert L. Wilkins, had, while a student at... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Supreme Court Back From Winter Break
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Chief Justice Roberts stopped by the press room Tuesday morning to welcome back reporters. He said the Court would be announcing quite a few opinions, so be prepared to work through lunch. Below are sketches of arguments the Court heard... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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McMahon's Drawings of the Emmett Till Murder Trial
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The blog Today's Inspiration this week posted a fascinating 1968 Famous Artists Magazine interview with artist-reporter Franklin McMahon who died last March. It is worth a read. McMahon was one of the greatest practitioners of visual journalism. He knew how... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Kiriakou Sentencing, CIA Leaker or Whistleblower?
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To his defenders former CIA officer John Kiriakou is a whistleblower who revealed the use of torture on terror suspects, but the government says that when he leaked the identity of a covert agent he was motivated by ego and... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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LGBT Group Take Supreme Court Bar Oath
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A large group of lawyers from the National LGBT Bar Association were introduced by Paul Smith before being sworn in to the bar of the Supreme Court. Openly gay lawyers practice before the Supreme Court, but yesterday marks the first... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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Clerk Suter's Morning Shtick
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Clerk Willam K. Suter gives an informal, even entertaining, orientation to lawyers about to be sworn to the bar of the Supreme Court. This morning he pointed to the adjacent bench where the press would soon be taking their seats... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2013 at CourtArtist.com
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