"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Justice Scalia is out and about, antagonizing — antoninonizing — students, this time at Princeton, with "a form of argument that I tho...

"Retire to the dirt, usurper of American freedom."

Sign at a protest before a speech by Justice Antonin Scalia at Wesleyan University.

""[I]t’s no surprise that a visiting professor is teaching Admin; professors at Yale love to dump..."

"... the black-letter teaching duties on visitors, so the YLS tenured professors can teach 'Law and Literary Theory' or 'La...

"You can hear the 'thwack' when Chief Judge Jones smacks her hand on the table — a benchslap, quite literally. DIVA-LICIOUS!"

When 5th Circuit Chief Judge Edith Jones told Judge James. L. Dennis to shut up. Hey, settle down. It's not like she strangled him.

"Should Professor Campos’s authorship of Inside the Law School Scam come as a surprise?"

"In hindsight, perhaps not. The universe of law professors writing negatively about the legal academy is not huge. For a law prof, sayi...

"Pregnant Woman Takes Bar Exam While in Labor, Delivers Baby Right After!"

David Lat writes: Before the start of the afternoon session on day two of the Illinois bar exam (Wednesday), the very pregnant [“Mother Bar ...

Jan Crawford interviews Justice Scalia at the Federalist Society annual dinner.

David Lat reports: Crawford asked Scalia if he ever found himself in a situation where he was torn between his personal conscience and his p...

"Racist Harvard Law Email: The Cat Fight That Turned Into a National Scandal."

Oh, no! We cannot absolutely rule out the the possibility that women are, on average, genetically predisposed to be.... Ha. How horribly, em...

Above the Law Idol — and I'll be a judge.

Here 's the explanation. And here 's a comment I completely predicted when David asked me to be a judge: Althouse = Paula Abdul. No...

"Hillary Clinton As A Gay Icon."

David Lat points to this 1999 article by Michelangelo Signorile . ADDED: Based on some of the comments here, I can see I'd better clutt...

"I will discover to my shock and chagrin ... Glenn Greenwald has already written about it, and I’m totally hosed."

TRex frets: [S]ome days I think I’ve got the post to end all posts lined up in my head and I will discover to my shock and chagrin that Digb...

The "new media" panel at the 7th Circuit conference.

I'm reading Christine Hurt's comments on the "new media" panel from yesterday's 7th Circuit conference, and I realize...

"Did Cole not do a preemption check before writing his op-ed?"

An anonymous comment at Above the Law tweaks Georgetown Lawprof David Cole. The post itself consists of David Lat saying he's bored wit...

Tiny answer to big question: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's shoe!

And Linda Greenhouse gets the better of Jan Crawford Greenburg, who blogged -- (blogged!) -- about "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dela...

Is Randy Barnett giving me the finger?

And, since I can't see it, why am I giving him the stinkeye? The image survives -- courtesy of David Lat -- but the context is lost in ...

"Every Case Gets the Judge That It Deserves."

David Lat says that about the Anna Nicole Smith case. Wouldn't it be weird if that were a general principle. ADDED: Judge Larry Seidlin...

"Ann Althouse Defends Scott Turow's Honor."

Writes David Lat , who wishes I'd been more catty in that NYT column -- and attracts a first comment from a pseudonymous former student...

At the "Writing About the Law" conference.

I'm watching the second panel at the conference now. My panel -- about law review writing -- is over, but you can read about it over her...

"Their lives overflow with dramatic possibility and struggle -- struggles that must be viewed through the prism of their gender."

David Lat defends his obsession with divas: We will not apologize for having a weakness for divas. We have loved divas for our entire life,...

"I see myself as a conservative, to tell you the truth."

Justice Stevens submitted to an interview on "Nightline" last night. I've got it TiVo'd, but I'll have to get to it la...