Given Joe Biden's promotion, Al Franken's new job, and an upcoming Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearing, it would be almost criminal for NBC not to put this video up on the website...
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I am inclined to agree with Christy that Sonia Sotomayor is the most likely Obama nominee, given her compelling personal story and what seems to a moderate liberal record. Stuart.
I have some thoughts up (with a somewhat misleading title) at Comment Is Free.
Yep, were going to see a lot more of this type of whining. Which, given that when it comes to Supreme Court appointments you're obviously choosing from among a large pool of potentially good candidates rather than trying to identify the "best qualified" candidate in...
This isn't terribly surprising, at is well-known that Souter disliked life in D.C. and wasn't likely to stay on the Court as long as possible in the manner of the.
The Supreme Court today held -- in a 5-4 decisions along predictable ideological lines -- that an FCC regulatory change that made broadcasters legally liable for broadcasting even fleeting, isolated.
Lithwick and Savage bring the depressing news about yesterday's oral argument in the case in which a 13-year-old young woman was strip-searched by school officials because of an entirely uncorroborated and self-interested (and ultimately inaccurate) accusation that she possessed ibuprofen, without even contacting her parents...
Apparently, the ability of the War On (some classes of people who use some) Drugs to act as a solvent in which the Fourth Amendment vanishes has some limits. Today,.
It's not surprising that the Ninth Circuit has held that the Second Amendment should be "incorporated" and apply to state governments as well as the federal government, and when the.
Adam Liptak had a couple of articles this weekend discussing arguments made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The first refers to Ginsburg's oft-cited (at least by opponents and centrist critics of Roe) claim that Roe went too far too fast. I wish Liptak had been a...
As part of our interminable but hopefully interesting series about judicial review, it may be worth considering Gerald Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope, invoked by Paul and now out in a.
Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is.