The Supreme Court today, by an 8-1 vote, narowed but did not strike down the "preclearance" provisions of the Voting Rights Act that require certain jurisdictions to get federal approval for any changes in their election laws. The opinion of the Court, written by Chief...
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In light of two controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decisions this week, Matt is reminded of Jeffrey Toobin's point that "In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief.
Commenting in defense of grandfather clauses that help to perpetuate previously racist admissions policies and John Roberts's empty formalism in Parents Involved, David Nieporent asserts:And both you and Stevens might.
Shorter verbatim Jonah Goldberg: "People say, 'well, why should we be neutral on race when people aren't neutral about whose family gave more money to a school and all the rest?' And there's a longer answer, but a short answer is simply that, you know,...
Unlike Ed Whelan, the Iowa Supreme Court is required by existing norms to actually make arguments in defense of its opinions. One of the arguments they make in Varnum is.
John McCormack asserts that Ed Whelan provides a "takedown" of the Iowa Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling. Wow, could it be that a conservative has actually engaged in analysis of.
The Iowa Supreme Court's ruling is obviously great news. I happen to be conferencing here in the midwest, but will have more thoughts later. Most immediately relevant is that fact that Iowa's legislative leadership seems to have less than no interest in a constitutional amendment...
Aye. Not the rules, but rather the policies that the rules enabled. Important distinction.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members.
On this date in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought several hundred thousand Americans together in the nation’s capital, where -- depending on whom you might have asked -- they had convened un support of national civil rights legislation, to chastise...
It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack.
Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett's op-ed, but it's worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett's argument.