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 actually quite modest in scope. As Mark Tushnet explains:And now to the final point: What...
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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.
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 probably correctly, that only redistricting every ten years is an informal norm rather than a...
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.
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 will be familiar to this site's tens of longtime readers, just to provoke some discussion...
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.
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 and defend a coalition of 5 justices I almost never would. Generally, the odds that...
After Iraq and massive deficit busting upper-class tax cuts and Ashcroft and Abu Gonzales and Strip Search Sammy etc. etc. etc. it's very difficult to continue to defend the narcissistic.
Hilzoy identifies the crucial problem with Lieberman, and identifies another classic example of Holy Joe putting himself above the party that I had forgotten:Prizing genuine pragmatism, reasonableness, and statesmanship is.