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.
Apparently all the Mariners needed was a trip to Shea Stadium, which suddenly turned R.A. Dickey into Phil Niekro. (And it's hard to even bring up Wright being out of the lineup, given that Tatis was 3-4.)
Like Publius, I don't know why the hell I keep reading Richard Cohen. Probably for the same reason some people cut themselves or compulsively pick their own scabs. But today's.
To add a couple things to Bean's post below, there's another glaring flaw with respect to Saletan's argument here:One of this country's greatest achievements is its separation of legality from.