There are a lot of irritating things about Peter Boyer's recent New Yorker article about Robert Casey's Senate bid in Pennsylvania. Now, to be clear, I believe that politics is strategic and the art of the possible. I'm all for doing what you have to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I blogged recently about Georgia's unconstitutional Voter ID requirement, noting that it would be far more effective in longstanding conservative efforts to suppress the African-American vote than in actually preventing.
Well, my streak of not having any allergic reactions in NYC restuarants--ceratinly a nice contrast to Seattle ("A coke? Would you like some pesto in that?")--was sure nice while it.
A couple quick points in Ward Report Don's reporting that he's sick of defending other people's rights: Defending the outcome in Roe does not in any way require a defense of Harry Blackmun's particular opinion, which is an accident of history. Burger probably assigned him...
I think there's a flaw in this quiz:HaymakerYou are one of life’s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on Earth. Probably what first.
Lance picks up on Rob's previous post. With respect to A-Rod, I think that the vote was outrageously close; it's not like I want Slappy to get the award either,.
Ann Althouse is certainly right about this:If I were an insider to OSM, would I mock them like this? Isn't much of the value of bloggers that we are on the outside? Rolling up together in a group to make money -- is that worth...
I should have mentioned this before, but if you're at all interested in the issue I can't recommend watching "The Last Abortion Clinic" strongly enough. (You can watch it free.
As a follow-up to my previous post, Somerby notes today that he recently posted the contemporaneous reaction about Ginsburg's nomination from the Washington Post: On the D.C. Court of Appeals,.
The Harvard Law Review's annual statistics are out. Interestingly enough, Breyer and O'Connor were tied as the justice most likely to agree with the disposition of the case (something to keep in mind the next time someone argues that because the GOP approved Breyer the...
Now that we have a smoking gun expressing the thoroughly unsurprising news that Alito believed that there isn't a right to abortion in the Constitution (and was an opponent of.
...in light of the smoking gun, I thought it would be worth bumping the most recent Alito link dump (first one here); I'll add any good stuff I find. (Make.