Shorter Verbatim Tom Maguire: "I am not sure I grasp the news value of this Times piece describing the summer homes of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld...I remain dubious of the timing." Yes, if there's anything that sets my alarm bells off, it's the Sunday...
Author: Scott Lemieux
How surprising! Samuel Alito--who in the public of his supporters mysteriously went from being a staunch reactionary to being a moderate liberals should happily support when he was nominated to.
Echidne and Amanda have already addressed Ana Marie Cox's airheaded non-review of Katha Pollit's new book. One of its many idiotic points was to claim that Pollit must be kidding.
Admittedly, this has long been obvious, but is there any better example of the depths to which the National Review has fallen than that it's willing to hire Mark Levin as its primary online legal analyst? And, of course, proponents of unreguable executive power pretty...
Wow, when I was just there the press and public were just savaging the French team; I'm guessing that's now inoperative. But between that and the Mets pummelling the Yanks,.
From Chris Clarke--The Love Song Of J. Edgar Goldstein, a loving tribute to a blogger who has done so much to bring civility and dignity to the blogosphere:And would I.
Not surprisingly, Boalt Hall monarchist John Yoo has taken to the pages of the McPaper to argue that the Supreme Court went too far in constraining the powers of the King of America. His claim that the Court "tossed aside centuries of American history"--presumably based...
Despite the hysterical reactions from some quarters of the right ("A victory for terrorists!"; "Can't Try Them, So Fry Them!"; "Instrument of Surrender Signed by SCOTUS"), the Hamdan opinion was.
Shorter Verbatim Lee Siegel: "The baseball cap's insinuation that life is a game with transparent rules gets to me. Also the insinuation that by wearing a baseball cap in inappropriate.
More when I have the chance to read it, but it sounds like good news: the Court--in a majority opinion by John Paul Stevens--has ruled, 5-3, that the procedures used at Guantanamo were illegal....Lyle Denniston: the Court "found the "military commissions" illegal under both military...
The Supreme Court announced three opinions today, but the biggest one (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) wasn't among them. The court did rule that Texas' redistricting plan was constitutional (finding, regrettably but.
To follow up on my point about abortion centrists who inexplicably assert that Roe's opponents have some sort of principled opposition to "judicial activism", Seth Rosenthal has an excellent summary.