Judge Lacy Thornburg is presiding over the case. He's been a legal heavyweight in NC for many years, including a stint as the Attorney General.
Here's the NC team (left to right): Jim Gulick, Marc Bernstein, Anne Lynch, and lead attorney Mike Goodstein.
This is the TVA team (left to right): lead attorney Frank Lancaster, Maria Gillian, Harriety Cooper, and Thomas Fine.
Since there's no jury in this trial, Judge Thornburg graciously let me sit in the jury box so I could get these drawings.
The day I attended the trial, there was only one witness all day. He was an expert witness for North Carolina. He had two points to make: (1) TVA could have put pollution control measures in place anytime it wanted in the past and still can, and (2) the expert witness for TVA is an idiot. Everything else he said was a variation on those two themes. There. I just saved you 8 hours of listening to expert testimony.
I can understand why the media would like some of your drawings - they are excellent!
ReplyDeleteAs to the trial itself, as a long-time critic of the TVA, I believe that NC has already made its point that the TVA is a domineering, authoritarian anomaly of the U.S. Constitution.
It never should have been ruled "okay" in the Ashwander case (the Supremes never ruled on the constitutionality of the TVA).
I have done a lot of writing about the TVA and still am hopeful that this federal court will somehow rule on the constitutionality of the TVA.
See my comentaries at http://norsworthyopinion.com and http://norsworthyattheshoals.blogspot.com
I am a native of the South and I would like to see the TVA expunged from everything southern. The "TVA culture" has done nothing but keep the South under the federal thumb.
Keep up the good work! (And good commentary).
Ernest Norsworthy
Visalia, California
emnorsworthy@earthlink.net
More fantastic drawings!
ReplyDeleteMy co-worker just mentioned courtroom drawings and wondered if anyone did that anymore, and I got to say, well I know someone who does them! I'm sending her a link....