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 "either lying about having read [Lawrence v. Texas], lying about what Scalia wrote, or an...
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As Jesse and TBogg have noted, this is a case that will test just how far the Supreme Court is willing to let the War On (Some Classes of People.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members.
Peter Schuck asserts that "The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Wyeth v. Levine gives unprecedented power to juries in deciding issues far outside their expertise." This is a very strange claim. The tort system wasn't created this Tuesday; juries, for better or worse, have had...
Diana Levine, a professional musician, developed gangrene after taking Phenergan through a direct injection and had her arm amputated below the elbow. A jury in Vermont held that the drug's.
It probably would not shock you to know that under the Bush administration the Forest Service sold timber for logging without the legally required notice, comment and appeal provisions because.
This interesting-looking (well, to me) Slate book club reminds me that I just read another recent book about Marbury that attempts to at least partially debunk the decision that Sloan apparently puts on a pedestal. I think at this point it's worth distinguishing between two...
As was widely expected, the Supreme Court today that Pleasant Grove, Utah's unwillingness to display a monument erected by the Summum did not violate the religious group's free speech rights..
For one last go-round, I'll respond to a couple of the creative attempts in comments to justify essentially indefensible life tenure for judges. Essentially, all of these arguments are "largely.
I have some thoughts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court tenure over at Comment Is Free.
Sandy Levinson makes the argument again. Before I get to some potential objections, I think a couple points should be emphasized. First, it's abundantly clear that life tenure is in.
The comments here focusing (correctly) on the age of potential judicial appointments -- a problem given that current norms favor appellate judges and there hasn't been a Democratic president for.