Derek Boogaard, R.I.P.
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Meet Satoshi Kanazawa. See also.
Explains a lot. ...the original story. I also love this Liebling quote that Glenn brings up: "Journalism is what somebody doesn't want you to print. The rest is publicity."
I have recently taken issue with State Department Harold Koh's characterization of the law of surrender and questioned Kenneth Anderson's claim that it is correct. In a personal exhange, Anderson refers me to a book entitled The Contemporary Law of Targeting, pp. 83-92 - I'm...
Is it possible for a human to give birth to a goat? (more…)
When even The New Republic publishes an article explaining why the countermobilization myth that's grown up around Roe is nonsense, it makes me think that we're actually learning something.
I have an article up at the Prospect putting this week's diminution of Fourth Amendment rights in context: That the other eight justices signed on to the majority opinion shows how bipartisan a cause the war on drugs has become. It is especially disappointing that...
At this point, Newt must be lying just because he enjoys it. He's sucked Limbaugh into his vortex!
The great Linda Greenhouse: Fourth Amendment law is enormously complex (although not as complex as it once was, now that the state wins almost all the cases.)
Not that it makes a lot of sense to put a team in Winnipeg before southern Ontario either, but this is still an improvement. In fairness, nobody could have predicted that putting a team in Atlanta wouldn't work. The question is what the new team...
Like Robert Haddick, though for different reasons, I was glad to see a State Department spokesperson publicly issue the legal justification for the manner in which the OBL raid was.
Dahlia Lithwick has a very good article on the implications of the political nature of judicial review, as revealed by the straight party-line voting on the constitutionality of the ACA..