Shorter Charles Krauthammer: The rights of adult women and children are exactly comparable. Really, it’s remarkable how much more sense the GOP position on abortion makes once we get this out in the open. There seems to be some confusion among the latest set of GOP talking points about the word that comes before “burden.” […]
Author: Scott Lemieux
Kevin Drum thinks that Alito is signaling that he won’t overturn Roe. Well, I suppose this is literally true, but I think Kevin is misreading what this means for his future jurisprudence: All of
This is not good.
As a break from the relentless Alito posts, why not a little more-MoDo bashing? It has been a few days, after all. Julia starts things off ny noting that her experiences may not be entirely representative. Anne Bartow provides some political analysis, noting Dowd’s bizarre priorities and the fact that she continually attributes beliefs to […]
Attempts by conservatives to make the case to progressives that it’s somehow in their interests to have one of the most conservative judges in the Circuit Courts appointed to the Supreme Court r
I mentioned recently Roman Hurska’s famous claim, in defending the hapless Nixon nominee Harold Carswell, that we “can’t have all Brandeises and Cardozos and Frankfurters and stuff l
Shorter Kathryn-Jean Lopez: Why should the fact that we were staunch, substantive supporters of Southern apartheid during the Civil Rights movement stop conservatives from claiming Rosa Parks’ legacy? And for some bonus history, what did the conservative President at the time–who the NR considered a wet–feel about civil rights? Indeed, while Brown was under consideration, […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Republic Dogs…
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
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 overwhelming majority of cases, he has urged a more conservative position than that of his colleagues. In his dissents, at least, he has been […]
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 lowl
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 abo