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Author: Scott Lemieux

Your Winnings, Sir

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On July 4, 2006
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 the Supreme Court--turns out to be...a staunch conservative! If you click on the handy interactive...

Sacre Blues!

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On July 1, 2006
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, Long Workout Day sure seemed a lot shorter......Randy offers a postmortem from the Brazlian perspective.
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 actually quite modest in scope. As Mark Tushnet explains:And now to the final point: What...

Still Nothing on Hamdan

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On June 28, 2006
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 probably correctly, that only redistricting every ten years is an informal norm rather than a...
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