Mark Kleiman makes an important, if depressing, point about the appalling case of Corey Maye: despite the widespread, cross-ideological outrage that the case has elicited throughout the blogosphere, he's probably not any closer to being spared than he was a few weeks ago. I don't...
Author: Scott Lemieux
It should be noted that my partial defense of governors who don't grant clemency in cases like Tookie Williams' doesn't seem to apply to Schwarzenegger, who based the decision on.
John Cole, an anti-death penalty ("I dislike the death penalty because it is irreversible, it is arbitrary, it is seemingly enforced in a haphazard manner, it seems to be more.
Good one today.
I'm not sure quite what to make of the Supreme Court granting cert appeal in the Texas gerrymandering case. To provide the background, the Supreme Court in 2004 issued Vieth.
As always, I was intensely irritated by Matt Bai's review of Pierson and Hacker's fine new book. While such events as the failure of Bush's social security initiative do indeed.
Jewelry symbolizing the beautiful moment when a father hands his obsessive control of his daughter's sexuality over to her husband! Which you can get by giving ten grand to Randall Terry! [Shudder. Long, long shower.]
I decided to turn on the 1 o'clock game while I was doing some writing, only to discover that the only game showing was the monumental Jets/Raiders thriller. With my.
I think it's easy for people of my generation to underrate him because of his generally dreary feature film career, but Richard Pryor was a genius comedian, one of the.
Apparently sick of having to have politicial appointees overrule professional lawyers, the Bush administration has decided to just skip the middleman:The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in the procedures meant to...
Peter Schuck's NYT op-ed starts with a defensible premise, but reaches a conclusion I couldn't disagree with more strongly. It should be said at the outset that I'm inclined to.
Like Shakes' Sis and Lindsay, I think this Nancy Goldtsein article is excellent. I definitely agree that abortion politics need to be seen as a part of a broader project.