Perry v. Perez
The case of which Perry v. Perez—decided this morning—most reminds me is Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood. Although they deal with different issues, the common thread is a particular kind of judicial...
View ArticleThe House contingency, redux
Martin Frost has this op/ed about the prospect of third parties and House contingency elections; I think my 2007 piece on the same remains relevant.
View ArticleExecutive malpractice
It's hard to overstate just how completely the folks running Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure have managed to screw a charity that does such important work. Earlier this week, Komen alienated a huge...
View ArticleNo, Justice Kagan shouldn't recuse
Althouse links to the latest story urging Kagan to recuse herself from the PaPACA litigation or explain why she won't.Kagan shouldn't recuse herself (neither should Justice Thomas, by the way) and...
View ArticleFriday open thread
We haven't had one for a while, so let's. What's happening?For musical accompaniment, check out a new band I've been enjoying this week, Metropol.
View Article"To change and to change for the better are two different things."
I saw that online earlier, quoted as a German proverb. I like G.K. Chesterton's comment on change and progress:As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...
View ArticleIf the court strikes down Obamacare...
The rationale, after a fashion. After the argument, I was thinking along similar lines:[H]ere's my devil's advocate argument about all this. No justice since Rehnquist has wanted to revisit the basic...
View ArticleBig picture philosophy of philosophies
At MP, I have a post following up on this 2009 SF post, if anyone's interested. It looks briefly at liberals and conservatives in terms of epistemological anxiety.
View ArticleThe uncited
He's still grousing...The result in Bush v. Gore was important, but the reasoning turned out to be perishable; the decision has not been cited again by the JusticesYes, well; that's unsurprising, as I...
View ArticleHas the tone changed?
.sjd { color: red; font-weight: bold; }Greg Stohr at Bloomberg, with my emphases and comments: In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of...
View Article"So we all agree that Obama was lying on the issue, the rest is an argument...
The question isn't whether anyone should give Obama credit for admitting it but rather why so few are willing to fault him for lying about it.
View ArticleOn being right and being rude
I have made it quite clear over the years, that I don't think that the so-called "delegates" should be speaking in any House hearings, except perhaps as a witness, so my immediate thought on seeing the...
View ArticleAbortion and the population: New Gallup numbers
Only four in ten Americans will admit to being pro-choice; half identify themselves as pro-life. But, remember, WE'RE the kooky extremists who are waging a war on women, right? As I've pointed out...
View ArticleWalker wins in Wisconsin!
Unions hardest-hit. I liked this line, from Politico's coverage: "Vince Lombardi, the man who taught [Wisconsinites] to think with clarity about the severe consequences of victory and defeat, once...
View ArticleThe aftermath
Yes, three quarters of the country can be wrong; the meanings of legal texts aren't decided by polls. But which texts are law can often be decided by polls, and if the President hoped to make a cause...
View ArticleCruz's eligibility
In the beginning, there was John McCain. People forget that “Birtherism” was summoned into being to challenge McCain’s quest for the Presidency, and we presciently debunked it in two posts in February...
View ArticleIntervention in Syria
It would seem like the time to get on the record about this. Perhaps the best way to describe my attitude toward military intervention in Syria is "I'm open to it." I am not actively in favor of it, I...
View ArticleThe end of the filibuster
2005. It was a different time; a simpler time; a time in which Autobots and humans lived side-by-side, but more importantly for our story today, it was a time in which the GOP controlled the White...
View ArticleThoughts on the Herbert v. Kitchen stay
We consider the stay sought from Justice Sotomayor in the Utah marriage case, Herbert v. Kitchen.Ordinarily, to obtain a stay, there must be "a 'reasonable probability' that four Justices will consider...
View ArticleThoughts on the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sebelius stay
We consider the other stay being sought before Justice Sotomayor, the Little Sisters of the Poor case.I had thought that the premise of the Sisters' case was (like the other cases in motion) "we're...
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