The Supreme Court and Politics–Especially the current conservative majority’s...
Dan Crawford emailed me this morning with a link to Linda Greenhouse’s op-ed in today’s New York Times, titled “Law and Politics,” and asked me to post about it. A more apt title for the op-ed, which...
View ArticleJustice Scalia’s Curious Memory Lapse. NO, not the one everyone’s talking...
Clarification appended below. —- During oral arguments in a freedom-of-speech case out of Alabama, several justices challenged the notion that public employees who testify truthfully about an issue of...
View ArticleFollow-up to “Scalia’s Curious Memory Lapse”: Is the Supreme Court about to...
Okay, first things first. And the first thing is that when you (okay, when I) put the word “after” instead of “before” in a key sentence, and the error (which in this instance occurred because of a...
View ArticleShaken, Not Stirred: The Supreme neo-Framers (likely) will continue their...
In an email this morning, Bill H asked me whether I know much about a case called Harris v. Quinn, in which the Supreme Court will announce the likely 5-4 majority’s ruling tomorrow. I responded: I...
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