As Pseudo-Adrienne, Amanda, and Jessica all point out, this NYT article about the experience of women getting abortions is very good. However, there is one argument it contains that drives me crazy whenever I hear it:While public conversation about abortion is dominated by advocates with...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In light of the decision of the DOJ, discussed by various law-talkin' people, to make prosecuting porn a "top priority"--apparently 9/11 "changed everything" by making counterterrorism less important--it's hard not.
...We bring you Gaggle!...and the Editors bring you funnier Mallard Fillmore. If he can make Day-to-Day funnier he would be the best blogger in world history, but that's a tall.
I was hoping to never think again about "Ivan Tribble," but his apologia somehow manages to be even more pompous ("If she's embarrassed by your bad taste or potty mouth, who is to blame for that?") and petulant ("A lot can happen when you try...
Lawyers, Guns and Money has received a tip explaining a great unsolved mystery. Apparently, the ill-fated plane carrying Roberto Clemente which tragically crashed while trying to deliver relief supplies to.
Mike Francesa just played the tapes from the Yankee radio broadcast from Friday, when Randy Johnson was ejected in the second inning. I hadn't heard it because I was watching.
Shorter Jason Appuzo: The fact that Hollywood studios have made a number of fictional disaster movies in the past means that individual actors and filmmakers (most of whom had nothing to do with these movies) are hypocrites when they attempt to raise money for and...
Gee, I spend two posts setting up the British system as a model for a country that respects individual rights with no judicial review at all, and they start with.
In my previous post, I discussed the question of judicial review versus judicial supremacy. The reason I bring this up is to address the arguments that John Roberts made as.
Ricky: "Uh, yes. Okay. The board."George: "I'm fucked on the board. I can't-- I can't-- See, I ca-- My mind must be on other places, 'cause I can't uh--"Ricky: "What? You can't do what?"George: "I can't close them."Ricky: "Well, they're old. Look, look, look, look...
This is, of course, great news. What's annoying is that it will hardly dim the cries that the Massachusetts judiciary is composed of out-of-control "activists" who imposed their will on.
In the course of a conservation I've been having with an extremely smart lawyer about John Roberts' arguments about Article III, I've been trying to clarify some thoughts about judicial.