civil rights
I have a column for the Prospect arguing that Scalia's evaluation of the discrimination claims in Wal-Mart v. Dukes is part of a long-running conservative con: The problem with ignoring.
This is a day where death has dominated the headlines--Jack Kevorkian, the American economy, Marshall Matt Dillon. But I want to say a special word about the recently deceased Geronimo.
I have an article up at the Prospect about the most recent Roberts Court excrescence, which adds some further context. I remain deeply unpersuaded by the majority's reasoning that 5.
Let's say you're a DA, and your office has an extensive record of disregarding constitutional requirements that relevant evidence be disclosed to defendants and their counsel. This leads to things.
School boards have gotten the green light from the Supreme Court to re-segregate, and so why not just abandon any pretense of caring and go back to the same "neighborhood.
Ah, the American judicial system. An employer engages in racial discrimination sufficiently egregious that an Alabama jury find it illegal. The 11th Circuit throws out the verdict. Its reasoning is.
Both the long and short book-length versions of his argument are worth reading, but Michael Klarman's remarks about the Supreme Court's generally poor record when it comes to the rights.
Scalia's concurrence in Ricci elaborated an alleged conflict between equal protection and the disparate treatment of the Civil Rights Act. I won't call this a false conflict, exactly -- as.