Kevin Drum thinks that Alito is signaling that he won't overturn Roe. Well, I suppose this is literally true, but I think Kevin is misreading what this means for his future jurisprudence: All of Alito's statements have to be taken in the context of the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
This is not good.
As a break from the relentless Alito posts, why not a little more-MoDo bashing? It has been a few days, after all.Julia starts things off ny noting that her experiences.
Attempts by conservatives to make the case to progressives that it's somehow in their interests to have one of the most conservative judges in the Circuit Courts appointed to the Supreme Court remind me of nothing so much as Leon Kass's efforts to argue that...
I mentioned recently Roman Hurska's famous claim, in defending the hapless Nixon nominee Harold Carswell, that we "can't have all Brandeises and Cardozos and Frankfurters and stuff like that there.".
Shorter Kathryn-Jean Lopez: Why should the fact that we were staunch, substantive supporters of Southern apartheid during the Civil Rights movement stop conservatives from claiming Rosa Parks' legacy?And for some.
Quentin Tarantino's Republic Dogs...
My TAP article about Casey and Alito is up. Atrios explains the reason for Ken Mehlman's House of Fog memo (we nominated him because he disagrees with the legal positions.
Cass Sunstein has studied Alito's dissents systematically:When they touch on issues that split people along political lines, Alito's dissents show a remarkable pattern: They are almost uniformly conservative. In the.
In a very important post, Nathan Newman has an extensive list of 3rd Circuit worker's rights cases in which Alito issued a dissent which was more conservative than the majority ruling. Some lowlights:In RNS Services. v. Secretary of Labor, the court found that a mining...
Publius has a typically thoughtful response to my post about Alito and Hibbs. I also think he's basically right, so it's worth clarifying my argument.The intent of my lengthy argument.
Doe v. Grody--the case in which Alito dissent from a ruling that an unauthorized strip-search of a 10-year old girl was unconstitutional--is yet another forum for the Alito Kabuki dance.