Wrong Again
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the Indiana state voting law requiring a photo ID is significant for many reasons. Some of the most noteworthy are the “I told you so’s.” The news coverage...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Watch
There is good reason to believe that one or more Supreme Court justices will step down in 2010. The rumors have swirled for some time that Justice Stevens will retire. Moreover, it seems increasingly...
View ArticleBrown Ripples
Scott Brown is heading for the Senate. There are obvious consequences and some immediate beneficiaries and victims. The president, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and anyone who voted to support the...
View ArticleStrange Herring
That light you’re supposed to walk into when you’re dying will probably fade if you breathe into a paper bag. Or not. Tech companies don’t steal each other’s employees. So Justice wants to investigate....
View ArticleThe Gray Lady Is Nervous
The New York Times editors, even before the revelation of her abortion advice during the Clinton administration, were nervous about the stealth nominee. They fret: President Obama may know that his new...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Isn’t the Harvard Law School Faculty
This report repeats the idea that Elena Kagan was nominated primarily to sway Justice Kennedy to the liberal side of those tricky 5-4 decisions. But if so, does this make any sense? That notion assumes...
View ArticleWhy Liberals Should Be Worried About Kagan
As I noted yesterday, Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez is a brilliant take-down of the majority’s reasoning. His concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago is...
View ArticleAnother Low for Amanpour
Each Sunday, This Week hits a new low. For sheer inanity, nothing to date has topped Meghan McCain on the show’s roundtable. What exactly does she bring to this? Well, self-parody for starters. Asked...
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