"If the packers couldn't beat the lions in 1937, they certainly won't be able to now."

"A Democratic court-packing scheme, whether proffered this summer or in a hypothetical second Obama term, would be laughed right out of...

When it comes to the Constitution and the Affordable Care Act, one must wonder who is the little lamb brought up as a pet.

"This court, cosseted behind white marble pillars, out of reach of TV, accountable to no one once they give the last word..." That...

"[Ron] Paul’s experience in science and medicine only reinforced his belief that life begins at conception..."

"... and he believes it would be inconsistent for him to champion personal liberty and a free society if he didn’t also advocate respec...

Judge Sumi strikes down the Wisconsin collective bargaining law.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: [Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat] sued to block the law after Assembly Minor...

Should the Constitution be amended to empower the states, by a 2/3 vote, to repeal provisions of federal law?

Dana Milbank notes "the unfortunate echo of nullification," but nullification was the idea that individual states could disregard...

U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips has enjoined the enforcement of Don't Ask Don't Tell.

It violates free speech and due process, she wrote , rejecting the arguments made by the Department of Justice lawyers who fought against th...

"By the time this thing would reach the Supreme Court Obama's going to have amnesty. He's s going to have all these brand-new Democrat voters."

Rush Limbaugh rails against the federal court decision preliminarily enjoining the Arizona immigration law: The judge is a Clinton appointee...

"Almost all judicial decisions... can be assigned an ideological value."

"Those favoring, say, prosecutors and employers are said to be conservative, while those favoring criminal defendants and people claimi...

Justice Kennedy: "I don't swing around the cases. They swing around me. My jurisprudence is quite consistent."

Another funny thing he said yesterday: "An activist court is a court that makes a decision you don't like." IN THE COMMENTS: ...

Is "The White House Butler" an outrageously racist headline?

There's been some discussion here in Madison, Wisconsin, where former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is a visiting profess...

McCain's judges.

John McCain gave a speech on judicial appointments yesterday, and it made me want to go back to a conference call he did with bloggers — inc...

On classroom advocacy, diversity, and neutrality.

Lawprof Stanley Fish is doing guest columns this month in the NYT, and today -- TimesSelect link -- he's denouncing teachers who approp...

"We wanted gender diversity. We wanted racial diversity, economic diversity, age diversity."

Lawyer Robert A. Levy talks about assembling the plaintiffs and putting together the case for the successful attack on the D.C. gun ban : ...

About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities.

After this post of mine questioning Lindsay Beyerstein's assertion that there is a right-wing term "scalping" -- meaning ...

200 years for possessing 20 photographs.

A prison sentence that the Supreme Court declined to review. The case, Berger v. Arizona, No. 06-349, has drawn considerable attention in c...

How the Edwards campaign blundered into hiring those bloggers.

Based on this Salon essay by Lindsay Beyerstein -- who declined their invitation to blog for them -- I'd say they were fooled by their ...

Has Rudy Giuliani gotten incoherent about abortion?

Here 's a NYT piece about how Rudy Giuliani is reframing his stance on abortion to appeal to conservatives. It contains a quote that I f...

That's not funny! Snickers.

Is this ad offensively homophobic? The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign complained and got Masterfo...

Death TV.

The last two nights of television were Death TV. On Friday, talking heads talked for hours about the hanging of Saddam which we could watch ...

Should judges accept amicus briefs from former judges?

Here's a conspicuous rejection: A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will s...