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...
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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.
I'm working on a longer piece about it, but let me make a couple quick points about Alito's lone dissent in Casey, in which he upheld a law that required women to sign a statement notifying their husbands unless they meant a fairly narrow set...
"If you were a writer whose short stories were published by an ethnic press affiliated with the University of New Mexico, you would be justifiably surprised to learn that, when.
*Bump* {links will be updated.}Not much to add to what I wrote below on Saturday. Bush, unfortunately, did learn a lesson from Nixon and Reagan; it's a smart pick, very.
I was prepared for a lengthy dissection of Ross Douthat's defense of Leon Kass, but fortunately Phoebe Maltz has taken care of it quite effectively. As Maltz points out, the entire Douthat/Kass "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free" argument...
The Editors have received an advance copy of Chapter 8 from Jonah Goldberg's new book, (Hitler+Mussolini)*10=Bill Clinton:Reader: I hate to do this, but I'm swamped with research for chapter ten,.
(Much) Shorter Maureen Dowd: When I like them, they don't like me. When they like me, I don't like them.The thing about solipsistic whining is that while it can be.
You would think that Hugh Hewitt would have enough self-respect to dial his abject shilling for the Bush Administration down to, say, an 8 when writing for the New York Times. You would be wrong. And yet, everyone seems to be focusing on the (admittedly...
While Paul Krugman has turned out to be very effective, I've always thought the academic who could be a really exceptional op-ed columnist (or blogger, for that matter) is Stephen.
...apparently he won't be indicted. Not surprising.