Josh Blackman is the latest scholar to sort of try to defend the Supreme Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. It shares something in common with every defense I've seen, including John Roberts's -- that is, it cannot identify any constitutional provision that the...
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Eric Holder seems to be doing everything he can to respond to the Supreme Court's disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act, and good for him: Attorney General Eric H. Holder.
Both chez Volokh and in comments at Crooked Timber, Johnathan Adler attempts (without quite endorsing the results) to do what John Roberts and his apologists have manifestly failed to do:.
Cass Sunstein argues that some court observers are being too unkind to Antonin Scalia. There is a core of truth to Sunstein's argument; unlike Alito and Roberts, Scalia's sporadic interest in certain grand theories will sometimes lead him in heterodox directions on issues that aren't...
As various posters on this site have been noting for a while, the crucial problem with the Supreme Court's decision disemboweling the Voting Rights Act is its inability to explain.
The reviews for John Roberts's performance in striking down the Voting Rights Act keep coming! The decision cutting the heart out of the Voting Rights Act was also 5-to-4, but.
Paul's piece was worth the wait: The decision in Shelby County is actually more nonsensical than even this outlandish hypothetical suggests. What the Roberts Five actually held is that it’s not merely a bad idea, but actually irrational, for Congress (by a combined vote of...
Shorter Shelby Steele: Because she is a Latina, Sonia Sotomayor is ipso facto unqualified to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Her extremely impressive formal qualifications are beside the point;.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, on Saturday. The contempt that contemporary elite Republicans have for.
It's a relief to see this kind of response to Trump finally admitting that he would vote to maintain Florida's near-total ban on abortion: Kamala Harris responds to Donald Trump’s plan to vote no on Florida’s abortion amendment: pic.twitter.com/x04JBdTZDA— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) August 30, 2024...
Bouie makes a good point--there are really not good Civil War movies. But “Gettysburg” isn’t unique here. One of the most striking facts about our cinematic depictions of the Civil.
This is the grave of Sullivan Ballou. Born in 1829 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, Ballou grew up pretty wealthy, despite his father dying when he was young. He went to.