Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Month: April 2007
The amazing Lynn Paltrow (a mentor and friend of mine), founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, has cranked out a strong rebuke to the Supreme Court's.
I'm frankly baffled by Ilya Somin's claim that there are plausibly five votes to strike down the PBA Act on Commerce Clause grounds. The most obvious problem with his argument.
This blogger picked the Cleveland Indians to win the AL Central. He did this despite the fact that they were going to be using Joe Borowski as a closer and were managed by Eric Wedge. Lawyers, Guns & Money regrets this egregious error.
"Why can't we get laid?"Nathaniel Blake and Derb have diagnosed the Rooseveltian weaknesses of the American Boy, who has been softened by our culture into a cowardly mound of goo..
It may not come as a shock that I agree with Matt's conclusion that Roe was correctly decided on the merits. (For those who haven't seen it, I lay out.
Great point here by Brad Plumer. It's hard to take Harry Reid's criticism of the Supreme Court's appalling decision yesterday seriously given that he voted for it in the first place. It's a dismaying abrogation of responsibility to score cynical political points by voting for...
Most: It pains me to link to them. Fox News (via Broadsheet):"Congress is practicing medicine and the Court has decided to let it, in direct conflict with its own precedent..
For some reason, the forced pregnancy lobby doesn't understand the well-established contrarian analysis that upholding arbitrary abortion regulations is actually a good thing for reproductive freedom:Elated and emboldened, anti-abortion activists.
As an antidote against the inevitable chorus of fake moderates arguing that today's abortion case is no big deal, four things to keep in mind as you ponder today's decision:Don't take assertions by the Court about whether they're overturning precedents or not at face value....
Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute and Weyerhauser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has a documentary out that claims to refute the "overall pessimism" in Al.
As Bean notes below, the Supreme Court has upheld the Federal "Partial Birth" abortion ban, which as I have argued in detail was 1)inevitable with Alito's appointment to the Court.