Shorter Bryan Stevenson: "First, the Yankees don't believe that African-Americans should be enslaved. Then, they don't believe that women should be enslaved. Always the aggressors!"
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds, circa 2004: "TODDZILLA ASKS: 'Where is everybody going to Spring Break? Daytona? Guantanamo Bay?' Well, there are some similarities..."Hahahahahahahahaha! Obviously, this is the kind of civility.
It's really too bad that the Yankees aren't dumb enough to follow this kind of advice. And yet, the competition remains stiff....Kaufman: "One of these days, there's going to be a national throw-your-hands-up moment about steroids, when the prevailing point of view is going to...
Jethro Tull robbed again!See, it's a meta-joke about the irrelevance of the Grammys that I'm the millionth person to make a 20-year-old joke. It's like the Oscars, I guess --.
Apparently there is now a self-described wingnut answer to Doonesbury. I dunno, I think it makes me miss the crudely drawn cartoon duck reading Glenn Beck transcripts. Maybe they should.
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...
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.
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 convincing when she says that "[m]y own guess is that moderate, centrist Barack Obama is...
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.
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.