I'm guessing Bean will have more to say about this, but the Supreme Court today held in a 7-2 decision that lower court judges are permitted not to apply federal sentencing guidelines (including, in this case, guidelines that mandate much harsher sentences for trafficking crack...
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Unfortunately, other professional responsibilities have prevented me from reading the full transcripts yet, so I've only heard the highlights so far (I'll have more when I read them in full.).
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.
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 isn't the case. If Reagan had appointed Bork and Scalia in reverse order, for...
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.
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.
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, would be willing to strike some sort of deal if Democrats would...