Constitutional scholar Cass Sunstein had a column in yesterday's L.A. Times focusing on Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Gonzales. The dissent, unlike the Court's abortion jurisprudence, focused on the right to abortion as necessary for women's equality. As Sunstein notes, Ginsburg has argued for an equality approach...
From Pulitzer Prize winner Maureen Dowd. Somerby has a history of the haircut wars, featuring the 'WaPo's own Pulitzer Prize-winning airhead Robin Givhan, and airhead who probably hasn't won a.
Project Runway, April 20:What really struck me about that audio clip though was what a gasbag Obama is. I hear a tired-sounding man, who rambles on and on. I know.
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In what may be the silliest wingnutitude since the "a crescent is coming to kill us and take our memorials" fiasco, Jerry Bowers:Envy, deep and powerful, comes through it all..
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The amazing Lynn Paltrow (a mentor and friend of mine), founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, has cranked out a strong rebuke to the Supreme Court's holding in Gonzales. She focuses on how Kennedy's decision, while claiming to value life above all,...
I'm frankly baffled by Ilya Somin's claim that there are plausibly five votes to strike down the PBA Act on Commerce Clause grounds. The most obvious problem with his argument.
This blogger picked the Cleveland Indians to win the AL Central. He did this despite the fact that they were going to be using Joe Borowski as a closer and.
"Why can't we get laid?"Nathaniel Blake and Derb have diagnosed the Rooseveltian weaknesses of the American Boy, who has been softened by our culture into a cowardly mound of goo. Some people are outraged that Blake and Derb would, from a great distance, chide the living...
It may not come as a shock that I agree with Matt's conclusion that Roe was correctly decided on the merits. (For those who haven't seen it, I lay out.
Great point here by Brad Plumer. It's hard to take Harry Reid's criticism of the Supreme Court's appalling decision yesterday seriously given that he voted for it in the first.