An elected judiciary is a bad idea. An elected judiciary with virtually no campaign finance restrictions is an even worse idea. Charles does an excellent job of explaining why. Let me add this:
Author: Scott Lemieux
This account of Jian Ghomeshi's dismissal from the CBC is fascinating and chilling reading. It's not just that he apparently thought he could bully his CBC superiors like they were.
I'm teaching Redding v. Safford School District tomorrow. As many of you know, this was the the 2009 case in which the Supreme Court ruled the strip search of a.
There was a lot of interesting discussion in last week's "is New York New York City + Alabama" thread. Before moving on to my broader point, let me address a couple specific issues: I obviously understand that the assertion that upstate New York is like...
It doesn't look good, although not entirely hopeless. Sam Wang on how to watch Election Night. And all the best of health to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
I never really understood what Pierre Omidyar was doing with his non-Intercept project, which seemed to involve hiring interesting writers and not letting them write anything. Now we know: Matt.
How about that -- racially discriminatory poll taxes have the effect of stopping eligible voters from voting: A Texas voter ID law considered to be one of the most restrictive in the country is doing exactly what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned it...
Path dependence in Mississippi: Where they existed, public services were sparse and utterly segregated. Anything public had to be kept separate from blacks, or degraded, if that wasn’t possible. To.
Shorter Christina Hoff Summers: "It's about ethics in gaming journalism."
Since Michelle Martin's excellent essay produced expected victim-blaming reactions, it's worth noting that Anna North is also excellent on the question of why victims of this kind of abuse feel they can't come forward: “Each of the women accusing Ghomeshi cite the case of Carla...
Brother Pierce makes two eminently fair points here. First of all, while there's no excuse for a Democrat losing a statewide election for federal office in Massachusetts, Republican governors have.
To follow up on my earlier post on prominent ex-CBC radio host and twelfth-rate topical songwriter Jian Ghomeshi, there are now 8 women who have accused him of sexual assault.