We have another occasion to be reminded of dsquared's dictum that "good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance." As Weigel says about Pat McCrory's attempts to justify his state's new vote suppression law: The careful...
Author: Scott Lemieux
It was an easy case, really, which is why defenders had to make bad arguments about the policy's effectiveness rather than trying to argue that it wasn't arbitrary and discriminatory:.
All hail the immense value produced by the securitization of mortgages by our financial masters.
It's a start, anyway: In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration moved on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose...
Josh Blackman is the latest scholar to sort of try to defend the Supreme Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. It shares something in common with every defense I've.
If a plutocrat comes calling... While the state of Michigan appears to have no interest in “bailing out” Detroit, it is giving a substantial boost to the Red Wings, the.
Sorry to intrude on Paul's beat, but I can't resist this story about a eighteenth-tier law school asserting a First Amendment right to rip off its students with taxpayer-guaranteed money without informing them of the chances that attending the school will help them practice law:...
SEK and MZS have already said what needs to be said about Anil Dash's defense of people being assholes in movie theaters on the merits. But like our correspondent from.
Ross Douthat responded to the arguments made by me and by Katha Pollitt in response to his recent column on Europe and abortion policy. I was tempted to respond by.
Like Erik's, my initial reaction to Dylan's Matthews's assertion that conservative think tanks are where people who really care about mass unemployment can be found was to be as incredulous as Matthews's post is credulous. Still, it's true that not all of these ideas are...
I'm not sure whether to say that Lawrence O'Donnell having a prime time talk show is inexplicable, or whether it's all too explicable.
As Andrew Cohen notes, Scalia's recent dissent in the California prison overcrowding case is classic Scalia. And, by this, I mean it's an opinion with a lot of showy phrases.