Many people I spoke to about seeing the Lourve pretty much said that it wasn't terribly exciting. I guess it's sort of like Citizen Kane; once a reputation reaches a certain point a lot of people are inevitably going to be disappointed. But granting that...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Several of the cases recently handed down by the Supreme Court have been interesting more for what they tell us about the future than for the cases themselves. An excellent.
Maha says all that needs to be said in re: the ridiculous touts of "new" WMD discoveries by various Republican operatives:I keep reading, and find that this is not a.
Radley Balko's post about Scalia's Orwellian citations made me think of two points I neglected in my previous post on the subject: Scalia's causal logic is, indeed, bizarre--the fact that the procedural decisions of the Warren Court led to a decline in civil liberties abuses...
I have an article in the print edition of the latest American Prospect, which examines and--I humbly submit--thoroughly demolishes the "pro-choice" anti-Roe arguments that are so prevalent among liberal pundits.
One good thing about food allergy illnesses as compared to food poisoning: the former is excruciatingly unpleasant for about 3 hours and then you're more or less free to resume.
Ugh. My sentiments here. As zuzu suggests, I'm not entirely sure what the forced pregnancy lobby and its legislative supporters are up to in LA and SD. As I've said before, there's the potential to use this somewhat atypical candor as a wedge, but pro-choicers...
The Supreme Court handed down a divided opinion about the applicability of the Clean Water Act today. I'll let my two legal-eagle guest bloggers (and environmental policy specialist co-blogger) parse.
With respect to the merits of Hudson v. Michigan, I remain mostly happy to second iocaste and Lindsay. I have a couple of additional points: Orin Kerr notes the distinctly.
Ezra suggests that, at least in California, initiatives are becoming toxically unpopular. I certainly hope that this is true, although I wonder how much of this was related to the unpopularity of the political figures involved. In a related and highly gratifying development, however, it...
Alright, so I am now in the city after an entirely intraweb-free week in the Vallee Du Rhone, tanned, rested, and carrying several bottles of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape (personal to customs agents:.
Off to France. Intermittent internet access in the meantime; enjoy our superb guest-bloggers and (fairly soon) my usual colleagues. I leave you with the following thought from Roy:I don't believe.