Valentine's Day in Law School

...is pretty much like every other day in law school. Except Prof. Bundy was super-awesome and gave us candy hearts before diving into a discussion of personal jurisdiction and service of process. He also took some time to talk to us about his Valentine, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.

Justice Jackson turned out to be a pretty amazing guy in terms of intelligence, achievements, and good looks. He also wrote a 1952 concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer in which he made an eerily prescient comment about the limits of Presidential Executive power:

"... The Executive, except for recommendation and veto, has no legislative power... With all its defects, delays, and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.

Such institutions may be destined to pass away, but it is the duty of the Court to be the last, not first, to give them up."

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Also, in something that kinda overlaps with the "Boalt = Crusty Old High School" series, there were candy-grams that people could buy from the African American student group and have delivered to other peoples' lockers. I didn't receive any, but that's okay because I can feel the love from my friends, and that's all that matters, right?

I was somewhat jealous of all the candy that people were eating in class, but it's no biggie. Prof. Bundy's candy hearts kept me going, even if they DID taste a little like crunchy Pepto Bismol.