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...
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
I recently mentioned Stuart Taylor's latest collection of evidence-free assertions that Alito is a moderate, which is no better than his terrible Newsweek article. Some of the problems are familiar. The bulk of the column discusses some of his decisions in order to debunk the...
Several bloggers have noted the extremely important change in practices with respect to civil rights enforcement at the DOJ. To repeat a point I made before, for the most part.
Professor B has a very thoughtful partial defense of Maureen Dowd, and raises a lot of good points. I certainly don't want to deny that internalized sexism could have affected.
As Jane says, a special hall of infamy should be erected to house the five "Democrats" who voted to strip habeas corpus rights, preferably in shackles:Kent Conrad - North DakotaJoe Lieberman - William F. BuckleyMary Landrieu - LouisianaBen Nelson - NebraskaRon Wyden - OregonA very...
In a post with rather more protein than wisdom, Jeff Goldstein accuses Kevin Drum of "lying by omission" because while Drum claimed that Reynolds was attacking the patriotism of "Democrats".
In light of the latest manifestation of Glenn Reynolds' demagogic hackery, I think we need to be reminded of how Kevin Drum's title should probably be modified along the lines.