After having to fight hungry dogs (quite literally) to maintain an internet connection for the last several days, we finally have reliable service. Normal blogging to resume shortly.
Yesterday, many conservatives managed to work themselves into a lather about a plausible interpretation of the Constitution with exceptionally few real-world consequences. I noticed much less outrage about the Court's.
The only real suspense about D.C. v. Heller was 1)how exactly the right to bear arms was defined and 2)what the lineup would be. The D.C. gun ban was clearly.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been mentioned as a short-list candidate for McCain's veep slot, reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy yesterday...by signing a bill to castrate all sex offenders.Seriously.I don't think there's any doubt that this is unconstitutional. But whatever the...
Duh:A new book from Stanford University Press called Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance proposes that . . . we need rigorous and careful thinking about the structure and.
Mr. Ralph Nader -- in a good position to speak on such issues, having earned 0% of the votes of African American women in 2000 while successfully achieving his goal.
In the hubbub over Kennedy & Exxon today, little attention has been paid to Giles v. California, a case on which I worked (for the record, my SCOTUS record is now 1-0). In an opinion by Justice Scalia, the Court today held 6-3 that a criminal...
Today's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana is a fairly typical Eighth Amendment case. The relevant textual language -- "nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- can evidently accommodate multiple outcomes.
djw -- who thankfully encouraged me to a see a rare screening of L'Eau Froide at a tiny theater in Seattle -- will be especially happy with this addition...
In a 5-4 opinion written by Kennedy, the Court has ruled that the Eight Amendment makes the death penalty unconstitutional in cases where the defendant did not intend to cause death. More when I have a chance to fully read the opinion.
Given the credible assumption that Scalia will be writing the Court's likely-to-be-a-landmark 2nd Amendment opinion in Heller, Mike O'Shea claims that this is "great news for those who are mainly.
Dodd and Feingold to filibuster the House's awful FISA bill in the Senate. And Reid is co-sponsoring an amendment stripping the bill of the provisions providing retroactive immunity for corporations.