Sandy Levinson, a professor of law and political science, has been arguing for several years now that academics pay way too much attention, relatively speaking, to the rights provisions of the Constitution, and not nearly enough to what he calls its hard-wired structural features. One...
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Kevin Drum suggests that "Obama has a notable streak of temperamental caution that serves him well, but it could also betray him. Maybe he could have turned the tide against.
COURIC: Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.COURIC: That's the cornerstone of Roe v WadePALIN: I do. And I believe.
The latest edition of the Palin Follies is a report that a so-far unaired portion of the Couric interview reveals that she is apparently unable to name any Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade.Obviously being next in line for the presidency doesn't require...
This is pretty extraordinary: McCain did an interview with a Spanish national radio network, in which he either:(1) Refused to meet with Spain's prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero because.
Mr. Trend on Obama's proposed Latin America policy:Certainly, it’s tough at this stage to say exactly and concretely what kind of plans or policies he has for Latin America, because.
I agree with Sanchez and Patashnik that there's no necessary contradiction between Obama's nominal opposition to same-sex marriage and opposition to the California Restoration of Bigotry initiative. As I think I mentioned before, Dan Pinello found a significant number of Massachusetts legislators who didn't initially...
Ari makes a good point:And furthermore, circling back to and expanding upon Wes Clark’s original point about experience, history is agnostic on whether great warriors make great presidents. In the.
I should just stop reading him and lump him with MoDo. But alas. I have not.In this installment, Saletan takes on pharmacists who refuse to dispense oral contraception (nevermind emergency.
Ogged, riffing on Adam Liptak's article about the United States as a (recent) outlier on free speech:It's dogma in the US that if you give up a strong commitment to the right of free speech, you're well on the way to tyranny, but we have...
Much rumness afoot in and around the Palace of Westminster these days. Gordon Brown, the mean, one-eyed Scotsman who took over from the Teflon-coated, happy-clapping Blair as Prime Minister has.
Woodrow Wilson, speaking about the recent US occupation of Vera Cruz during his commencement address at the US Naval Academy, 5 June 1914:What do you think is the most lasting.