Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Over at Balkinization, Jack Balkin handicaps/analyzes the choice:
A jaundiced look at the world we live in.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Over at Balkinization, Jack Balkin handicaps/analyzes the choice:
I DO love the Onion!
WASHINGTON, DC—A genie freed from a battered oil lamp by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted the conservative jurist a strict constructionist interpretation of his wish for "a hundred billion bucks" Monday.
On this Memorial Day, Paul Krugman revisits California's Proposition 13.
For those of you too young to recall, thirty-odd years ago, California voters went to the polls and made it much, much more difficult for lawmakers to raise property taxes.
The always-perceptive Hilzoy zeroes in on the problem with so-called "preventive detention."
If we don't have enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we don't have enough evidence to hold them. Period.
Just when I thought there was nothing left that could surprise me anymore…