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 8 years (and moreover that president mostly had a Republican Senate and didn't make judges...
Month: February 2009
Oh, God, coverage of the now nearly-at-hand beginning of the baseball season will once again be dominated by the thoroughly uninteresting news that completely unenforced nominal rules against drug use.
Beau's relationship with this stuffed animal is of a far more wholesome and family-friendly nature than some of deranged sex fiends you see around here. Mostly he just carries it.
Oh, please. The country has vaporized a million jobs in two months. For the past several weeks, critics of the stimulus bill have been provided with disproportionate airtime to make demonstrably stupid arguments about the economy while everything swirls in a tight spiral toward the...
A couple of commenters in the previous thread have asked about who I'd like to see chosen if (God forbid) Ginsburg is forced to leave the Court. I addressed this.
Dahlia Lithwick makes the case for a liberal of the Brennan/Marshall variety (although I suppose the best analogy to Scalia would be William O. Douglas.) Unfortunately, I think she's also.
Rebecca Traister notes the importance of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent from Dr. Anthony Kennedy's appalling "despite the fact that there's 'no reliable data' on the subject, we can safely assume that women will get all hysterical if the state doesn't threaten their health in some...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health issues raise the possibility that the SCOTUS may soon not have any women on it. If Ginsburg retires, the pressure on Obama to nominate a woman.
I think that PJTV might be the dumbest business venture since some idiot greenlighted Scenes From A Mall.See also. Of course, as soon as they bring the Blogway Boys back.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had surgery for pancreatic cancer. As noted, "[s]he was treated for colon cancer in 1999 and did not miss a day on the bench," so her departure from the Court is not necessarily imminent, but obviously our thoughts should go out...
The fact that public transit is being cut as demand is increasing is not only bad and countercyclical in itself, but has additional bad side effects:One stop scheduled to be.
In a truly just world, Dick Cheney would be stuffing envelopes at home for a living, or perhaps sorting plastic at a recycling center somewhere. And yet here he is,.