My TAP article about Casey and Alito is up. Atrios explains the reason for Ken Mehlman's House of Fog memo (we nominated him because he disagrees with the legal positions conservatives have long held on the most salient issues! Scout's honor!") Not only does the...
Month: November 2005
Cass Sunstein has studied Alito's dissents systematically:When they touch on issues that split people along political lines, Alito's dissents show a remarkable pattern: They are almost uniformly conservative. In the.
New Hampshire is safe. The Free State Project, a libertarian movement that chose New Hampshire as its promised land for a society based on maximum choice and minimum government, has.
In a very important post, Nathan Newman has an extensive list of 3rd Circuit worker's rights cases in which Alito issued a dissent which was more conservative than the majority ruling. Some lowlights:In RNS Services. v. Secretary of Labor, the court found that a mining...
Publius has a typically thoughtful response to my post about Alito and Hibbs. I also think he's basically right, so it's worth clarifying my argument.The intent of my lengthy argument.
What Dan said. Long story short, just because liberal interventionism CAN be corrupted into neo-conservatism does not mean it MUST be so corrupted.
US casualty rates in Iraq, October notwithstanding, have been somewhat less severe in 2005 than in 2004. The biggest reasons for the (mild) decline are probably the absence of the major anti-Falluja offensive of November 2004 and of the Sadr-led Shiite insurrection of April 2004....
Frist: "Once again, it shows the Democrats use scare tactics," he complained, sounding as impotent and frustrated as Reid had the day before. "They have no conviction. They have no.
Doe v. Grody--the case in which Alito dissent from a ruling that an unauthorized strip-search of a 10-year old girl was unconstitutional--is yet another forum for the Alito Kabuki dance.