Archive | September, 2004

The lead story in today’s Washington Post reports that the number of enemy attacks in Iraq has reached 70 per day over the last few weeks, a considerable increase over other periods. About 20 attacks a day occur in Baghdad alone.

The NY Times has an interesting article in today’s paper on Kerry’s management style. An excerpt:   Mr. Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document – acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case.  . . . .   […]

Chris Geidner notes over at Blog DeNovo that speculation about retiring Supreme Court Justices is an old story; in particular, the NY Times was reporting “the widely anticipated retirement of John Paul Stevens” at the end of the Term as far back as 1994.

In an appendix to a forthcoming law review article, Wake Forest University lawprof Robert Chesney lists and categorizes DOJ’s anti-terrorism prosecutions. It’s a pretty interesting list; to see it, go here, click to download the article, and scroll to page 105.   Chesney identifies 33 terrorism-related prosecutions involving 92 defendants; provides a quick summary of the […]

I’ll be giving a talk on Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope next Tuesday, the 28th, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in room 79A at the Stanford law school; Stanford lawprof Robert Weisberg will be commenting. The talk is being put on by the Federalist Society, but I hope that it’ll be pretty nonpolitical, and […]

A bunch of people e-mailed me to ask about this subject, so I blogged about it today at GlennReynolds.com, where I’ve been guest-blogging this week. An excerpt: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that says: “No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no […]

See his column here; an excerpt: Now it is official: The United States of America has a federal bureaucracy in charge of deciding who can say what about politicians during campaign season. We can argue, and people do, about whether this state of affairs is good or bad, better or worse than some alternative. What […]

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has an op-ed on this.

Some readers pointed this out, and Eugene Kontorovich (the author of the op-ed I linked to on the subject) also confirms it: The divestment action was taken, as the op-ed mentioned, by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); but there are other Presbyterian denominations in America that didn’t join in that. No word on what the Judean […]

See here for the story. Many thanks to my future sister-in-law, Hanah Metchis.

A reader writes, apropos the Republican mailer whose cover suggested that the “liberal agenda” involved “Banning” the Bible: I understand the legalistic impulse to look at the fine print but could you explain your readers how fine print regarding the precise intention of the word “banning” would invalidate that the mailer is dishonest? By contrasting […]

Reader Matt Johnson reminds me that the American Library Association — hardly known as a bastion of Republicanism — defines “banning” of books to include “remov[al of] material from the curriculum” of a public school. Under that definition, many liberals do support “banning” the Bible: If a school teaches the Bible as part of its […]

I wanted to see the ACLU’s brief in support of its motion asking a court to order the Omaha World-Herald not to publish the name of an ACLU client-plaintiff. The ACLU was kind enough to pass along the court’s order denying the motion, and the text of the motion itself, but it said that it […]

Here’s his L.A. Times column; I pass it along (with all the proper permissions) as full text rather than just as a link, so that people don’t have to go through the L.A. Times registration scheme. I’m no expert on the subject, but Max is (he’s a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and […]

SCOTUSblog has posted copies of the Vanity Fair article on Bush v. Gore, in case you haven’t seen it. Part 1 here; Part 2 here.   Will Baude offers some interesting comments on the article over at Crescat Sententia. An excerpt:   Reading the VF article pushed me more closely to thinking that the decision was reached […]