to live in a world where comity is the rule, where you spin law out of cotton candy and everyone is friends. Stephen Breyer remembers that world. It was a kind world, a fun world. You worked for some hours a day and then you...
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United States Supreme Court Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor. Alex Wong/Getty Images We are once again being appealed to by two members of an august judicial body to.
Sam Alito, center. Paul Singer, right. ProPublica has another Supreme Court scoop. It seems that Alito got on a private jet to go on a fishing trip in Alaska with.
A painting that hangs at Camp Topridge shows Crow, far right, and Thomas, second from right, smoking cigars at the resort. They are joined by lawyers Peter Rutledge, Leonard Leo and Mark Paoletta, from left. Credit:Painting by Sharif Tarabay That's what guests of billionaire Harlan Crow...
From Baum, Matthew, Bryce Dietrich, Rebecca Goldstein, and Maya Sen. “Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking About Citizenship on the U.S. Census.” The Journal of Politics, forthcoming. https://tinyurl.com/y9ujktgb It's common.
Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images I suppose it's fitting that Donald Trump, a lawless president, would saddle the country with a lawless Supreme Court. This isn't merely a matter of.
AKA Lies. Dear Jim @Acosta: Grassley is lying. He voted to confirm Anthony Kennedy in 1988. Thanks, Jonathan Singer pic.twitter.com/uLdYDrYv5t — Jonathan Singer (@jonathanhsinger) February 14, 2016 Christ, what a grasshole. As to what I think Obama should do (since you're all dying to know),...
As a follow up to my initial response to the question of whether the progressive agenda is exhausted, I have a longer piece up about the major issues progressives are.
Roe v. Wade turns 40 today. This seems like a good opportunity to address some of the false things that are routinely said about it: Roe is unpopular. This is.
As I mentioned below, yesterday Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a draconian abortion law that, among other things, effectively bans abortions after 18 weeks after conception. This law, like other attempts by state legislatures to ban pre-viability abortions, represents a substantial dilution of a woman's...
If Clarence Thomas were a Democrat, it's not too difficult to imagine that this would result in a Congressional inquiry. Combined with the involvement of Virginia Thomas in Liberty Central,.
Atypically for something written by John Yoo, I actually agree with much of the first part of his Clarence Thomas apologia. Thomas is the most principled conservative on the Court,.