Simon Lazarus and Rochelle Bobroff have more on Alito in the wake of his casting the decisive vote in the awful Ledbetter decision: In the meantime, they can expect more opinions in this vein from the Roberts Court. Justice Alito’s solicitude for employers is not new. Before joining the Supreme Court in February 2006, as […]
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The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence that he
As Bean notes below, the Supreme Court has upheld the Federal “Partial Birth” abortion ban, which as I have argued in detail was 1)inevitable with Alito’s appointment to the Court an
Sam Alito turns 57 today. You may have read about him somewhere before. Rather than subject the good judge to the usual garroting, I’m going to allow the birthday boy to describe himself: But as one of the blogosphere’s great non-partisan voices has observed, there are “varieties of judicial conservatives, just as there are varieties […]
Commenter (and blogger) Bean raises some interesting points with respect to this post. I’ll respond to each point separately: First, while I agree that the current iteration of abortion law is i
The decision in the Phillip Morris case came down today, with the Court vacating the award of damages in a 5-4 decision. I’m extremely skeptical of this whole project of finding limits to puniti