Ginsburg and Foreigners
Is R. B. Ginsburg completely ignorant of American legal tradition, or is she making a facetious argument? American hostility to the consideration of foreign law, she said, “is a passing phase.” She...
View ArticleJudging and Race
Here are three paragraphs from a speech Judge Sottomayor gave in 2002. The last sentence of the first paragraph has been quoted numerous times, and I presumed that if I read the sentence in context, it...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Untruth
Barry on his Supreme Court nominee: I think that when she’s appearing before the Senate committee, in her confirmation process, I think all this nonsense that is being spewed out will be revealed for...
View ArticleLest We Forget
The Wall Street Journal has published the text of Barry’s floor statement regarding the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts: Given that background, I am sorely tempted to vote for Judge Roberts...
View ArticleMaybe He’s Trig’s Real Mother?
The desire of those on the Left to personally destroy their political opponents is never satiated. And any comparison to the attacks on Anita Hill are inapt. Hill leveled personal charges against...
View ArticleI Wish I’d Bought Strawman Futures
Because David Boies has destroyed every one in sight. I’m always curious, after reading an op-ed that says not one vaguely fresh thing, and doesn’t even manage to say stale things with charm, why the...
View ArticleRivkin and Casey Want the Dog to be Wagged
This column by David Rivkin and Lee Casey on the demise of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) is immensely wrong-headed as a matter of constitutional law – or, at least, it should be (one never knows what the...
View ArticleFact: Same-Sex Marriage Is Awesome
Orin Kerr points out a particularly weak portion of the Prop. 8 ruling. The judge made the following finding of fact: Permitting same-sex couples to marry will not affect the number of opposite-sex...
View ArticleProfessor Althouse Is Not Amused
If anyone needs a good cheer-up today — or cheer-down, depending on one’s disposition — read Ann Althouse’s analysis of President Obama’s obfuscations and dodges regarding DADT and gay marriage. It’s...
View ArticleBean Counting in Court
This story on the oral arguments regarding Arizona’s new immigration law is not terribly interesting, really. Plainly, one of the three judges on the panel is not sympathetic to the feds’ argument:...
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