First Public Defender on Supreme Court!

For the first time in our nation’s history, an attorney who once practiced law as a public defender will serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate and will take her seat this summer when Justice Stephen Breyer steps down. She will be the first former criminal defense lawyer since Justice Thurgood Marshall who served on the bench more than 30 years ago.

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Please stop all your cell phone spamming

“Potential Spam” is the innocuous term that Verizon classifies as one of several phone calls I get each day on my cell phone.

     I immediately delete them but have had an accident or two when I’d click the wrong button and end up dialing that number. I quickly stop any further progress at that number and click on delete. I got a feeling, however, that some “son-of-a-b” got a recording of my mistake and will log it into their account, but I really don’t know.

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