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Author: Scott Lemieux

Jim Crow Returns To 11CA

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On September 10, 2010
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 so specious that a unanimous Supreme Court rejects it.  Another jury finds the discrimination illegal.   ...
I largely echo what Adam, Glenn, and Nick Baumann have to say about yesterday's disgraceful 9th Circuit ruling upholding the Obama administration's efforts to shield the government's arbitrary-rendition-for-torture program from scrutiny.   It's worth remembering what's at stake here.   The majority opinion, before sadly eating the...

An Easy One

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On September 8, 2010

The politics of extending Bush's upper-class tax cuts are indeed straightforward. If you win and just extend them for lower brackets, fine.   If you lose, you still win: you have.

Data!

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On September 7, 2010

The XXers have done what I was too lazy to do with respect to the NYTBR's treatment of female writers, and the data supports Weiner's position (at least on the.

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