From Chris Clarke--The Love Song Of J. Edgar Goldstein, a loving tribute to a blogger who has done so much to bring civility and dignity to the blogosphere:And would I have been worth it, after all,Without the quips, the martyrdom, the glee,Without the one-act plays...
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Not surprisingly, Boalt Hall monarchist John Yoo has taken to the pages of the McPaper to argue that the Supreme Court went too far in constraining the powers of the.
Despite the hysterical reactions from some quarters of the right ("A victory for terrorists!"; "Can't Try Them, So Fry Them!"; "Instrument of Surrender Signed by SCOTUS"), the Hamdan opinion was.
Shorter Verbatim Lee Siegel: "The baseball cap's insinuation that life is a game with transparent rules gets to me. Also the insinuation that by wearing a baseball cap in inappropriate situations--like indoors--you have what it takes to break the rules and win the game. And...
More when I have the chance to read it, but it sounds like good news: the Court--in a majority opinion by John Paul Stevens--has ruled, 5-3, that the procedures used.
The Supreme Court announced three opinions today, but the biggest one (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) wasn't among them. The court did rule that Texas' redistricting plan was constitutional (finding, regrettably but.
To follow up on my point about abortion centrists who inexplicably assert that Roe's opponents have some sort of principled opposition to "judicial activism", Seth Rosenthal has an excellent summary of what abject nonsense this is:As the Supreme Court's term nears its conclusion, columnist George...
One remarkable aspect of the vote on the proposed (and blissfully failed) constitutional amendment to address the enormously consequential problem of flag-burning is this name from the vote tally:Feinstein (D-CA),.
The American Prospect's three-article package on abortion rights--including an article by yours truly--is now up and accessible to all; make sure to check it out. Because many of my arguments.
Now that I'm finally back from becoming even more Frenchified, it's time to thank my outstanding guest-bloggers, Iocaste and Lizardbreath. And to add one more round of kudos to SteveG and Dan Nexon. Make sure to visit them regularly at their usual residences.
When Ann Althouse said that Alito was a different kind of conservative than Scalia, she was in a sense right, although in a rather different way that she intended. From.
Some big Supreme Court cases today. I'm going to leave discussion of the Vermont campaign finance decision until tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to take a page from LizardBreath.