More when I have the chance to read it, but it sounds like good news: the Court--in a majority opinion by John Paul Stevens--has ruled, 5-3, that the procedures used at Guantanamo were illegal....Lyle Denniston: the Court "found the "military commissions" illegal under both military...
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The Supreme Court announced three opinions today, but the biggest one (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) wasn't among them. The court did rule that Texas' redistricting plan was constitutional (finding, regrettably but.
To follow up on my point about abortion centrists who inexplicably assert that Roe's opponents have some sort of principled opposition to "judicial activism", Seth Rosenthal has an excellent summary.
One remarkable aspect of the vote on the proposed (and blissfully failed) constitutional amendment to address the enormously consequential problem of flag-burning is this name from the vote tally:Feinstein (D-CA), YeaYe Gods, what a wet. This tops, although it's admittedly not as consequential as, her...
I spend three days in DC, and it rains nine and a half inches. Much flooding, as you may have heard, prevented an investigation of any of the major museums..
The American Prospect's three-article package on abortion rights--including an article by yours truly--is now up and accessible to all; make sure to check it out. Because many of my arguments.
Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers on winning the College World Series! I know that as a Duck I should never take a pro-Beav stance, but the University of Oregon lacks a baseball team, and in truth most of the bile and darkness in the...
Now that I'm finally back from becoming even more Frenchified, it's time to thank my outstanding guest-bloggers, Iocaste and Lizardbreath. And to add one more round of kudos to SteveG.
Soon, The New Republic will collapse in on itself, smothered by its own sense of self-importance. We need to organize a rescue operation to get the book review section out.
When Ann Althouse said that Alito was a different kind of conservative than Scalia, she was in a sense right, although in a rather different way that she intended. From a left-liberal (if not left-communitarian) perspective, Alito is clearly worse. Scalia does have a libertarian...
Joe Sheehan on baseball punditry:When the situation was reversed, when the best team in baseball was, at least on the surface, a smallball team, the revolution was upon us. Now.
Some big Supreme Court cases today. I'm going to leave discussion of the Vermont campaign finance decision until tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm going to take a page from LizardBreath.