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Scalia: don’t blame me, the founders were crazy

Monday, July 30, 2012

Has there ever been a Supreme Court justice quite as crazy as Scalia? Maybe. Has there ever been one that just sort of made it up as he went along quite like Scalia does? I really rather doubt it. Yet the man truly thinks he has some mysterious power to get into the heads of […]

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Equal justice under law

Friday, July 13, 2012

  It’s truly amazing what the government can do when it sets its mind to it. The Obama Justice Department has made a name for itself by going after internet “pirates”, read: people who Hollywood believes is costing it money. Richard O’Dwyer, an enterprising 24-year-old college student from northern England, has found himself in the […]

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Just what they had in mind

Monday, July 9, 2012

  Seems Karl Rove has been pretty blatantly coordinating with the Romney campaign, secure in the knowledge that no one will do anything about it. WASHINGTON — Karl Rove was the featured speaker at a previously unreported luncheon held just outside the Mitt Romney campaign’s recent retreat for high-dollar donors, according to three Republican fundraisers […]

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My take, as if it matters

Thursday, June 28, 2012

  I would never have predicted that Roberts would be the fifth vote for the health care law, but as a blogger I have the absolute right to give an opinion about why it’s not surprising, now that it's happened. So here’s my theory. It’s not the Scalia court, and it’s not the Alito court. […]

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It’s good to be a plutocrat

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Yet another example of the Obama Justice Department doing just what one would have expected from the Bush Justice Department: The Obama administration is set to urge a federal appeals court to reinstate a $1.5 million music filing-sharing verdict a jury levied against a Minnesota woman for sharing two dozen songs on Kazaa. At issue […]

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Chris Powell knows it when he sees it

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Chris Powell, of the Manchester Journal Inquirer, has been threatened with a libel suit by the World Wide Wrestling company. The offending prose is as follows: If, having spent several times more money than had ever been spent on a campaign in Connecticut, a candidate isn’t known well enough, whose fault would that be? But […]

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Facebook threatens, but likely bluffing

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Facebook, it is reported, has threatened to sue employers that demand access to the usernames and passwords of employees or potential employees. Facebook would certainly have the financial wherewithal to intimidate smaller employees, but I would love to know, absent legislation, the nature of the legal theory on which they propose to rely. One suspects, […]

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A new argument against gerrymandering

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

This is interesting:   .. [I]n Illinois, the bipartisan League of Women Voters is challenging gerrymandered districts based on a new legal claim: that it violates free speech. While a district court already dismissed its claim, the League of Women Voters can—and has—appealed to the Supreme Court. Because it’s a redistricting case, the court will […]

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If you can pay, you get the megaphone

Monday, June 27, 2011

If you’re rich enough, you get to shout. Most politicized Supreme Court ever.

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It’s not judicial activism when they do it

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I would very much like to know the legal basis upon which a Texas judge enjoined the City of San Antonio from naming a street after Cesar Chavez. Given the two hundred name changes that went unchallenged (according to the proponent of the name change), it’s hard to believe there’s some sort of statutory standard […]

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