The 10th Circuit struck down the idiotic and flagrantly unconstitutional ban on "sharia" and "international" law passed by the fine citizens of Oklahoma last year. Good; I would have hated to see Antonin Scalia get arrested if he came to give a speech in Tulsa....
Author: Scott Lemieux
Dahlia Lithwick's piece on the oral arguments on the latest round of the FCC "fleeting expletives" case that the Supreme Court kicked back to the circuit court 3 years ago.
Ezra: Possible outcomes tonight: 1) Romney wins NH and goes on to win the nomination. 2) Romney loses NH and goes on to win the nomination. Well, eliminate #2 and.
The Supreme Court was right yesterday; campaign expenditures are not the equivalent of other kinds of political speech. Now. if it would only apply this logic to other campaign finance cases...
In the wake of a predictably dreary NCAA title game, a couple points. First of all, I'm sure that BCS apologists will see Alabama's win as a vindication of a.
You can see why so many Republicans like him. As, yes, this kind of sexist joke is perfectly consistent with the new Republican prudery.
See Lithwick, Liptak, Hasen, Epps, and Denniston. It will be interesting to see if the Court runs with the compromise floated by Kagan.
Congrats to a very deserving Hall of Famer. The rest of the ballot has two encouraging signs, in that both Raines and Bagwell had major jumps which make it likely.
As Lindsay says, Katha Pollitt's column on Ron Paul is excellent. I'll quote another important passage: It’s a little strange to see people who inveigh against Obama’s healthcare compromises wave.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the obvious constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In particular, the "activity/inactivity" distinction cooked up by conservatives to get the ACA ruled unconstitutional 1)has no basis in the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent...
Why won't people leave kindly old Ron Paul alone? Elsewhere in "paleocon some people like kidding themselves about" news, Pat Buchanan has been suspended for expressing the same odious views.
Since I was on the road, I missed the first game (I'm, ah, sure I would have picked the Texans behind the immortal T.J. Yates.) But still time for the.