The Supreme Court has ruled, 6-3, that the Attorney General does not have the authority to override Oregon's assisted suicide law. The Court (correctly) did not announce a new constitutional right to assisted suicide; rather, the case was about statutory interpretation and separation of powers....
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Laura Bush: The must crucial goal for sex-ed programs is to ensure that women don't get AIDS until they're married or raped.
WILLIAMSON: Aren't you going out today?ROMA: With what? (pause) With what, John, they took the leads...WILLIAMSON: I have the stuff from last year's...ROMA: Oh. Oh. Oh, your "nostalgia" file, they's.
I believe that Matt has uncovered the ultimate Caitlin Flanagan article; indeed, the scale of the self-parody is so deep that if her name wasn't on the byline I would assume it was a joke. It's the ultimate in her all-too-imitable brand of sneering, reactionary,...
Congratulations to frequent commenter gmack and the Steelers. I was meeting someone for lunch and had to leave after halftime, but decided to record the rest just in case it.
Eventheliberal Washington Post op-ed page has come out in favor of the confirmation of Sam Alito. And, also unsurprisingly but even more annoyingly, it does so in classic Fox News.
I was pleased to discover via iocaste that the WSJ has made this outstanding article available online. Make sure to click through--there's a detailed explanation with a handy chart, but some choice grafs:Programs that provide free or deeply discounted drugs for the elderly and the...
Sam Alito has given a very helpful interview to the fine folks at Fafblog!:FB: Now back around then you also wrote a memo saying the Attorney General can't be sued.
Mahablog is on the case.
According to the John Miller, guilty people behind bars claiming they're innocent is a "much bigger problem" than innocent people being convicted. I know I just said that I have more respect for conservatives who wear their contempt for civil liberties proudly, but maybe I...
I very much enjoyed Glenn Greenwald's merciless dismantling of Jonah "Search warrant? Scope requirements? Who cares?" Goldberg. And yet, in a perverse way, I have a certain respect for the.
The Liberals, in the midst of what looks like a dismal bellyflop into the upcoming election, came out with an attempted debate bombshell: eliminate Canada's "notwithstanding clause," which permits provincial.