Star Wars: The Clone Wars Scores PGA Awards Nomination
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The Producers Guild of America recently revealed nominations as part of the PGA Awards Sports, Children s, and Short Form categories, and that included a nod to the stellar
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (specifically season 7). Clone Wars was nominated as part of the Outstanding Children s Program category alongside shows like Hulu s
Animaniacs, HBO Max s
Looney Tunes, and more (via Deadline). With how much critical and fan acclaim it received, it could very well take top honors, and we ll find out when the winners are revealed on March 20th as part of A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees special.
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The question in the title of this post is the headline of this notable new
Vice article. I recommend the lengthy piece in full, and I suspect more than a few readers might have more than a few thoughts on this important modern-day topic. Here are just a few excerpts from a piece with lots of thought-provoking elements:
Public defenders had blogged about their work as long as a decade ago, and tweeting about arraignments wasn’t new, but [Scott] Hechinger and others in New York’s PD scene are responsible for popularizing the trend. As it’s grown, however, criminal justice reform advocates and formerly incarcerated people have started to argue that these posts can put clients at risk of retaliation from judges and prosecutors, violate their privacy, and present ethical quandaries for public defenders talking so openly about their work on Twitter. The optics of white public defenders gaining likes or retweets on stories of Black and brown suffering has also been called i
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Gordon Caplan, left. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Gordon Caplan will, eventually, be allowed to practice law again. The onetime co-managing partner at Willkie Farr found himself caught in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, eventually pleading guilty to paying $75,000 to “college coaches” turned government cooperating witnesses in a scheme to have a professional alter his daughter’s answers on the ACT in order to get her a higher score. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani to one month of jail time. But he knew that, even after serving his time, there were still potential consequences for his blind ambition that had become focused on his daughter’s college admission. His license to practice law was suspended on an interim basis, and the fight to stop disbarment, the so-called death penalty of the legal profession, was on.
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