Aggressive prosecution #1: California businessman commercially growing medical marijuana.

Adam Nagourney, in the NYT, gives very sympathetic treatment to Matthew R. Davies — "a round-faced 34-year-old father of two young gir...

"Isn’t there something creepy about Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz having... 'asked his Washington-area employees to write "Come Together" on each customer cup today, tomorrow and Friday, as a gesture to urge leaders to resolve the fiscal cliff'?"

Asks Mickey Kaus. Did Schultz take a poll of his employees–sorry, “partners,” he calls them–before ordering pressuring asking them to join i...

"Time honors Sandra Fluke as 'Person of the Year' finalist."

That's the Breitbart headline for an item that begins "Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itse...

Sandra Day O'Connor says attacks on John Roberts "demonstrate only too well a lack of understanding that some of our citizens have about the role of the judicial branch."

She was testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on civics education, which doesn't sound as though it was about airing griev...

"Were the matter up to me, I would vote to grant the petition for certiorari in order to reconsider Citizens United..."

"... or, at least, its application in this case. But given the Court’s per curiam disposition, I do not see a significant possibility o...

How can the Supreme Court escape from the perception that it's partisan?

Lawprof Barry Friedman is working on the theory that people have lost trust in the Court (or so the polls show) because they perceive the C...

A New Yorker article about Supreme Court history makes a big error.

Says lawprof David Bernstein — who's written a great book that covers the era of history in question: [Jill] Lepore writes, “In 1910, ...

The misuse of Citizens United in bemoaning Scott Walker's recall victory.

Michael McConnell — the Stanford lawprof and former federal judge — has a fine op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The effect of Citizens Uni...

NYT/CBS poll shows low approval rating of the Supreme Court... but why?

A poll of 976 adults shows 44% approve of "the way the Supreme Court is handling its job," 36% disapprove, and 20% judiciously opi...

"There’s no sugarcoating what this loss means for organized labor."

Writes WaPo's Greg Sargent, whom I normally don't link to because he's such a sugarcoater. Unions invested heavily in this battl...

Spelling time again.

The best blog coverage, year after year, is at Throwing Things . ADDED: " doo buh TAHN tay : The attitude of the Montana Supreme Court ...

"Why is so much ire aimed directly and uniquely at Citizens United, out of the entire body of campaign finance law?"

Asks Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg (via Instapundit ): Some of it is that the Court had to overturn precedent, but... this was not a part...

"The Brown-Warren agreement does not seek to equalize spending between the two candidates, both of whom are well funded."

"It is a sort of suicide pact, providing... that the two 'donate to charity half the price of ads that are run in their name in the...

"[Scott] Walker implies recall workers are paid."

"I’ve assumed all along that between activists and paid circulators, if they paid enough people they’d ultimately be able to get that n...

"RJ Reynolds v. FDA and the Hidden Danger of Denying Free Speech Protection to Corporations."

Aaron Worthing has an excellent post about the litigation over the FDA rules requiring new warning labels on cigarettes. IN THE COMMENTS: ca...

The 2012 presidential race was supposed to be really expensive, but it's been incredibly cheap.

The reason is obvious: It's been done with debates. Wouldn't it be funny if after all the hand-wringing and Constitution-violating ...

Justice Stevens writes of his "extreme distaste for debates about campaign financing."

That's from his new book "Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir," and it refers to his experience immediately upon his ascent t...

Scott Turow advocates amending the Constitution to restrict free speech.

It's never been done, but he thinks it's time now, and he recommends this push for a constitutional amendment as the next step for t...

Cornel West — protesting Citizens United — gets himself arrested on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reported by Susan Brooks Thisltethwaite at the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog: The Supreme Court was a fitting venue for th...

"The Roberts court has championed corporations. The cases it has chosen for review this term suggest it will continue that trend."

Says the NYT. Of the 51 it has so far decided to hear, over 40 percent have a corporation on one side. The most far-reaching example of the ...