Tag: judicial review
George Will — whose commentary about the courts in the past tended towards banalities about how judicial opinions that George Will disagrees with “diminish democracy”* — come
Dahlia Lithwick has a very good article on the implications of the political nature of judicial review, as revealed by the straight party-line voting on the constitutionality of the ACA. Certainly, if
Dahlia Lithwick’s does a very good job here of analyzing the question of how Kennedy might vote on same-sex marriage, with her choice of commentary to link to being particularly astute and comme
Here. I was reading a review yesterday of a collection of Henry Farlie’s essays, and discovered that The Daily Beast and The Daily Brute were lightly fictionalized versions of The Daily Mail and
In comments, LP and geo requested a post about this subject. My purpose is not to make the case; I’m a poor candidate for such a task as I’m not persuaded. In the current debate between Scott and
The court’s decision can be defended, in theory, on various grounds. (1) The state’s constitution actually required the court to rule as it did. I’m not going to debate this claim an
Richard Posner has an interesting article — essentially an application of his recent HLR Foreword — critiquing the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller, the D.C. gun control case. It
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 spee
- Whaddaya gonna do?
- Hoist by their own pseudo-scandal
- Democracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
- The 12 stations of the grift
- Could Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
- Questions and Answers
- The surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
- Also too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it