A couple questions/retorts to the post below are worthy of response. First, from Erik: What I find really interesting about this data is that every one of Truman’s selections to the court turned out pretty conservative. What was Truman thinking in making his selections? To...
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I think this data, which I discuss here, needs to be much more widely circulated: And I think this data -- because it can't fully.
I think Matt has exactly the right reaction to this Douthat op-ed : what Douthat prevents as a "tradeoff" is just a strong case that providing women access to abortion.
When I started blogging about the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, I expected the effect to be what most of you did: that Obama would withdraw the nomination, announce that it had been a belated April Fool's Day joke, and immediately announce...
As Glenn Greenwald points out, skepticism about the Kagan appointment issuing from anyone left of Miguel Estrada (who by the way thinks Kagan is a terrific pick) has been met.
I have a piece up at TAP that sums up my position on the Kagan pick. What I see as the core of the argument: But it must also be.
I have to apologize in breaking in to the 24/7 coverage about the Kagan appointment that our readers expect and demand from LGM, but let's face it: this is one of the areas we're damned good at. I largely agree with the disappointment that my...
I'm not saying that she will be as bad as the endorsement suggests. But let's be frank: when you're a Democratic president with 59 votes in the Senate and you.
This seems like a good time to note that Matt is completely right about judicial term limits. I've been through this before, so rather than elaborating again I'll just emphasize.
I don't mean to join in making this an all-Kagan-all-the-time blog, but some commenters have raised points that may help to clarify the argument I'm making. The question of whether her views being known by Barack Obama guarantees a strongly liberal nominee (as opposed to...
The controversy, such as it is, over Elena Kagan's nomination throws several points into relief: (1) The extent to which legal academia is an intellectually bankrupt and politically corrupt insider.
I just did an NPR show with UC-Irvine dean Erwin Chemerinksy about the Kagan nomination. Some of the tepid quality of the support for Kagan is illustrated by the fact.