To follow up on Dana's excellent analysis of Jim Wallis's latest bit of abortion concern-trolling, I continue to be irritated by these kinds of assertions:Without calling for restrictions such as.
Stories like this make Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's jobs too easy.Larry Craig and David Vitter have just co-sponsored the "Marriage Protection Amendment" -- a law that would "protect" the.
There's something of a curious disconnect between two passages of Scalia's opinion in Heller:After an exhaustive discussion of the arguments for and against gun control, Justice Breyer arrives at his.
Great point by Sandy Levinson: If one had any reason to believe that either Scalia or Stevens was a competent historian, then perhaps it would be worth reading the pages.
So, I have received no small number of questions and e-mails in response to this post; here is a short explanation.On Sunday afternoon, Davida and I rented a car and.
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.