Friday night I was awarded a Ronald Reagan Medal by the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, for being an “enterprising student.” While in law school, I worked with Prof. Eastman to write briefs in the Sixth Circuit (Craigmiles v. Giles), the Mississippi Supreme Court (Archie v. Mississippi Major Redevelopment Agency), and the United States Supreme Court (Adarand Constructors, Grutter, Zelman, Schaffer v. O’Niell) and we co-authored some law review articles together, also—Stephen J. Field: Frontier Justice or Justice on the Natural Rights Frontier? 6 Nexus J. Op. 121 (2001) and The Senate Is Supposed to Advise And Consent, Not Obstruct and Delay, 7 Nexus J. Op. 11 (2002). I was very honored to receive the award, and I especially thank Prof. Eastman, who has received only a fraction of the honor that he deserves. (Other recipients included Ron Zumbrun, founder of the Pacific Legal Foundation, where I work, Chip Mellor, founder of the Institute for Justice, and California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, who told the audience, “As my mother would say, if I’m resting on my laurels, I’m wearing them in the wrong place.”)
We spent the rest of the weekend at the beach (where I got one of the worst sunburns of my life) and lazing about the Four Seasons, a wonderful hotel. Erin decided to show off in the exercise facility—the girl can leg-lift (or whatever it’s called) 390 pounds! It’s scary. I’ve never been with a girl who could beat me up before.
Yesterday we landed at the Sacramento Airport around 2pm, in the middle of a freak storm which dumped so much rain on the city that a couple lanes on the 5 were under water—we even saw a car stranded in the water with the owner standing up through the sunroof waiting for rescue! The hail had been so heavy that it was clumped up on the sides like snowbanks. Very strange. The cause was probably Hurricane Javier, which also was causing very large waves down at Newport Beach.
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