Professor B says: It seems reassuring to have Roberts say that he believes Roe to be settled law, and that he doesn't think that disagreeing with the logic of a finding is just grounds for overturning a precedent; but holding out the possibility to overturn...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Mad Melancholic Feminista recently wrote to ask about my earlier post arguing that overturning Roe would not, in fact, "return the issue to the states." Like many pro-choice activists, this.
Since it's back in the news again, it may be worth exploring what the pro-Plessy memo written by William Rehnquist actually means. As I briefly alluded to in my previous.
Justin Gardner has actually been going some good work in the wake of Katrina, but then he once again proves the oddity of self-defined "centrism" by endorsing the wingnuttiest argument to come down the pike in a long time. So, apparently, we're simply not allowed...
Is Dale "sure John Olerud can go first to home on a line-drive single to shallow right!" Sveum worse as a player or as a third-base coach?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)--President George W. Bush announced that the vacancy at the head of FEMA created when Michael Brown was nominated as the next Ambassador to the Ivory Coast would.
Differently phrased Glenn Reynolds: The failures of Homeland Security (although not the President who oversees the office!) after Katrina make a paranoid crank's lunatic ravings about scary dark-skinned musicians all the more relevant.
Bob Somerby saw someone say this on This Weak: “I was one of the people who was very angry watching from the safety of my living room and with the.
Regular readers of Lawyers, Guns & Money (if any) will know that I am often puzzled by those who claim that reactionary culutral countermobilization is primarily driven by the fact.
Susie at Suburban Guerilla notes this Alan Dershowitz post about William Rehnquist, which (among other things, some of which are better substantiated than others) discusses the infamous memo Rehnquist wrote when he was clerking for Justice Robert Jackson, in which he claimed that Plessy v....
I have been invited to help fill in for Lindsay at Majikthise while she is off doing actual journalism type-stuff; make sure to check out her reports from the field..
Hitchens:I've obviously missed my vocation as a cartoonist: By Sunday I had lost count of the number of them who all seemed to know that, if Saddam Hussein was still.