Setting the right free speech example.

Dean Daniel Polsby at George Mason Law School. Meanwhile, at UW-Stout , after sufficient pressure, the Chancellor caved.

Comparative Federalist Society fliers.

Here's the flier for the event I'm participating in this week: And here's the flier for last week's event (which went big a...

"How do you escape the notion that getting rid of affirmative action is white supremacy?"

2 UW-Madison students challenge Roger Clegg — the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity: Like the clip in the previous post, this wa...

"You need to take an Ethnic Studies Requirement class!"

An audience member yells reeducation advice at Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity, who asserts that public universities should ...

There was a huge crowd for tonight's big affirmative action debate here at the University of Wisconsin.

But the 2 speakers  — Roger Clegg and Larry Church — refrained from cranking up the emotions in the big room. There was some clapping and fi...

A Federalist Society/Wisconsin Law School event promoted with boxing gloves...

... just got a lot more boxing-y. Professor Larry Church will debate Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity tonight, the evening of...

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...

Is Rudy Giuliani on a mission from God?

WaPo's Robert Barnes wrote about Rudy Giuliani's speech to the Federalist Society this way: The former mayor said the country plays...

Among the Federalists.

"We thought we had planted a wildflower in the weeds of academic liberalism. Instead it was an oak, " said Antonin Scalia last ni...

Chris Wallace asks Giuliani about his statement that it's "okay" if Roe is overruled and "okay" if it's not -- but doesn't push him on his answer.

Yesterday, on "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace invited Rudy Giuliani to clarify what he'd said at the Republican debate on t...

Where I was when I was out of my milieu.

You know me, I'm usually here in my remote outpost in Madison, Wisconsin, and I'm glad to be back home again. As my previous post hi...

The NYT pronounces the Federalist Society annual meeting "somber."

I watched C-Span's coverage of the part where they celebrate Scalia (and his huge family) and show the love for Alito. It didn't see...

"The election was not an affirmation of the other party’s program...."

John McCain said at the Federalist Society convention today: Try as hard as I could, I couldn’t find much evidence that my Democratic friend...

Debate on the marriage amendment.

The Federalist Society is hosting a debate on "The Constitutionality of Wisconsin's Gay Marriage Amendment" tonight at 7 in Ro...

More about that Federalist Society conference.

Rick Garnett was also at the "Rehnquist Legacy" conference on Thursday. Here 's his post about it over on Prawfsblog. My post ...

Arakawa... and that unitard!

Despite spending most of the day separated from my beloved internet, I stayed off all the news sites and even blogs and my own comments sect...

At the Rehnquist conference.

I'm back from Milwaukee. I got there on time, despite some bad traffic and the fact that the ramp listed on my Mapquest instructions was...

Conference..

Today is the Federalist Society conference, "The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court." I'm on the second panel, but I certainly don...

The weekend.

I'm glad the peace of the weekend has arrived. It's been a very hectic week, even with Thursday spent snowed in. Yesterday was espec...

30 questions for Alito.

The NYT op-ed page features six legal writers coming up with a total 30 questions for Samuel Alito. Leonard A. Leo, the executive vice pres...