Claims Goldstein: "legal conservatism has the drawback of showing undue deferrence to stare decisis." So, apparently, Clarence "Because I believe that the demise of the Privileges or Immunities Clause has contributed in no small part to the current disarray of our Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, I...
Author: Scott Lemieux
6 CA has ruled that Ohio's 2000 election procedures violated the equal protection clause, based (among other arguments) on the Supreme Court's innovations in equal protection doctrine. As some of.
Doghouse Riley on Powerline's resident foreign policy expert. Well, it could have been worse; they could be using Orson Scott Card...
This defense of the Lubriderm Euston Manifesto illustrates its silly underlying assumptions quite nicely. Consider:Because Iraqi reconstruction has been a fiasco, the liberal temptation is to side intellectually with the insurgents. But, for example, trade unions are forbidden to organise in the Iraqi public sector...
After seeing this, I would have to say that I was unfair to Harvey Mansfield; his sense of humor during his appearance was a little less forced, and his misogyny.
For those who miss my sparking prose and universally interesting topics, Michael Berube and I have a preview of the NHL playoffs over at his place. One cool thing about.
In Chicago conferencing; blogging from my end will be intermittent over the next two days.
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: "The press has destroyed freedom of the press by using it to present information unfavorable to the current administration."
The story of Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline's attempt to rifle through the health and sexual records of adolescent girls has been rebuffed once again in U.S. District Court; Lizardbreath.
Ah, that's more like it. As is generally the case when not writing about John McCain (which, alas, I may have to come back to for another round) or Iraq, Jon Chait remains very acute. His evisceration of the odious Joe Klein is terrific. First...
I had been meaning to get to Pamela Paul's defense of Caitlin Flanagan's upper-class anti-feminism--which essentially argues that people vociferously disagree with Flanagan's crude gender stereotypes and bourgie conformism because.
USA Today has a handy-dandy chart showing what a post-Roe landscape would look like. As you can see, despite disingenuous claims that overturning Roe is no big deal, roughly 200.