Since there seems to be some confusion in the comments here I'm guessing there may be a more general misunderstanding of this point. The Chief Justice is a separate appointment, and there's no requirement (formal or informal) that a justice will be promoted from within....
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"He’s done a hell of a job, because I’m not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm."
Billmon on Brown.
Since I've already discussed Rehnquist's Brown memo, I'll leave that mostly for later. Since it is (for good reason) the primary focus of many postmortems, we shouldn't forget that Rehnquist's.
One of the difficulties that those of us who claim that courts and legislatures are not always engaged in a zero-sum struggle for power have is in making the empirical case convincing to skeptics. Indeed, most delegations and deferrals of power by elected officials to...
In general, it is safe to assume that I have never met anyone famous who has passed away, but this is an exception. I met the Chief Justice when I.
While it is well-known that Michael Brown was a hack political appointee utterly lacking in relevant experience, I did not know that he does not even seem to have been.
Matt makes good points about Jon Chait's failed attempt to defend his initial support for the Iraq war. I have a couple whacks of my own. Perhaps the most problematic aspect of Chait's argument, to me, is his use of the over-inclusiveness of the category...
Jill mentions a protest at NYU over TA unionization, and I certainly agree that they should be strongly supported. However, it's important to remember why TAs at NYU do not.
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More material for the forthcoming public access special, PFC Pantload Live From the Yakov Smirnoff Theater: There are four levels of hell inside the refugee city of the Superdome, home to about 15,000 people since Sunday. On the artificial-turf field and in the lower-level seats...
Jack Shafer indirectly destroys the Jonah Goldberg's argument about "playing the class card": To be sure, some reporters sidled up to the race and class issue. I heard them ask.
I'm certainly no huge fan of Rudy Guliani, but the contrast between Guliani on 9/11 and Bush this week is pretty striking....As Thad points out, Echidne pulls a classic quote..