But then, via publius, she gives us animation:There's so much wrong with Slate (see: Saletan). But sometimes they just get it right.
Supreme Court
I'm a few days behind on my weekly rundown of Adam Liptak's Sidebar column. I blame law school (I know what you're going to say. I know I'm a third.
This online database of papers from the Blackmun files looks like an immensely valuable resources for scholars and watchers of the Court.
Today, in day 2 of the term, the Supreme Court heard two cases involving the US Sentencing guidelines. Both cases involve decisions by lower courts to sentence drug offenders to something less than the guidelines minimum (downward departure). There's a whole lotta confusion about the...
Most of this lament for the polarization of the Roberts Court I addressed in a TAP article recently. The short version is that 1)Roberts will certainly fail in his attempt.
Yesterday, Adam Liptak's (now free!) column in the NYT addressed the question of photo identification and voting -- specifically, whether it's right (constitutionally, pragmatically, morally) to require voters to show.
Jeff Rosen has a very good piece on John Paul Stevens in the Times Magazine. The central point is that Stevens isn't so much a liberal as someone who plays one on the Rehnquist and Burger Courts:Stevens, however, is an improbable liberal icon. “I don’t...
From a (generally unfavorable) David Garrow review of Jeffrey Toobin's new Brethrenesque book about the Supreme Court:Toobin devotes two chapters to Bush vs. Gore, the case that decided the 2000.
In case any more evidence were necessary, here's yet another example of why the Supreme Court's decisions banning school admission plans that consider race were just plain wrong.UPDATE [BY SL]:.
Oh, and to add to what Matt says here one interesting thing about the panel is that Rosen immediately conceded that while the quality of legal craftsmanship may be normatively important it has no impact on the public's perception of the courts. This is empirically...
It's so early in the day, and I've already had what may be the biggest laugh of the day. From the Center for American Progress daily Progress Report:Sen. Arlen Specter.
Matt beat me to the most obvious response to Jeffrey Rosen's modified limited hangout on Chief Justice Roberts. Although it's indeed reasonable to have claimed that Roberts was better than.