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Sentencing Round-Up

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On December 10, 2007
Scott covered the important points in his post about the Supreme Court’s decision today in Gall and Kimbrough. Boiled down, the Court in these cases says that it meant what it said in Booker: the Sentencing Guidelines are just that — suggestions — and federal judges are not mandated to apply them. The decision today […]

The Second Amendment on Trial

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On November 20, 2007
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal to the D.C. Circuit decision striking down D.C.’s handguns ban. I’ll have more discussion about this later, but to stimulate discussion in the interim I’ll say that 1)the most plausible interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, I think, confers an individual right to bear arms, although this […]

Borking and The Court

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On November 20, 2007

I actually agree with two points that Ross Douthat makes here. First, I think that there’s a tendency to assume that Roe‘s popular support made its upholding inevitable, but this really is

Death Penalty Moratorium

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On October 31, 2007

It’s all but official: the Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for a prisoner in Mississippi, “and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block all exec

Happy Anniversary!

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On October 24, 2007
Via Roy, I see that conservatives are whining about the great day 20 years ago on which arch-reactionary Robert Bork was justly rejected by the Senate. First if all, it’s worth repeating that in this case the Senate functioned as it should, focusing on constitutional philosophy rather than trivial details, and that attempts to turn […]

Revising Thomas

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On February 1, 2005

I have been meaning to comment for a while on this very strange Slate article. Ezra raises the most salient objection: it’s absolutely crazy to think that the Republicans, in the current context

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