the Attorney General would make him more, rather than less, likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court. I’m not so sure. But I do agree that the opposition to Gonzales would be muted for either position because he is more moderate than almost any other likely nominee. The brief clip that I saw from […]
Archive | November, 2004
Zogby’s Implausible Analysis of Catholic Voters:
Pax Christi, one of the leading organizations of the Catholic Religious Left, is touting a new Zogby poll which headlines “Catholic voters ultimately turned-off by single issue messaging of conservative Catholic leaders.” Horsefeathers. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bush lost the Catholic vote 47-50 in 2000, and won the Catholic vote 52-47 in 2004, for […]
Affirmative Action in Law Schools
Entry Three: Black law graduates in the job market (My apologies for posting my planned Wednesday post today) Tuesday, I wrote about some of the perverse effects racial preferences have upon blacks in law school and on the bar. There was already some awareness that some of these problems existed, though most of my colleagues […]
One to Remember:
A very cool post by occasional VC-guest-blogger Eric Muller.
Federal Appellate Circuits:
Judge Kozinski sent me this, responding to Orin’s post that in turn responded to Judge Kozinski’s and Judge Thomas’s anti-Ninth-Circuit-splitting op-ed: Orin Kerr makes an excellent point about the desirability of merging circuits. Merging circuits would probably result in increased efficiency, and ensure the delivery of a variety of services that are now unavailable in […]
Arafat is finally declared dead.–
The MSM are reporting that Arafat was declared dead Wednesday night (in France before dawn on Thursday). According to Debka, it was earlier agreed that Arafat would be declared dead on Tuesday night or Wednesday, but there was a last-minute snag in the plans when a Muslim cleric (Sheikh Taissir Tamimi) declared that Arafat was […]
The Politics of Corporate Crime Legislation:
If corporations are so powerful, why are there so many corporate crime laws on the books? Lawprof Vik Khanna offers his thoughts in a very short and readable article available here.
Happy Birthday
to the U.S. Marines.
“Kerry Supporters Seek Therapy in South Florida”:
From the Boca Raton News (with thanks to Dan Gifford for the pointer): More than a dozen traumatized John Kerry supporters have sought and received therapy from a licensed Florida psychologist since their candidate lost to President Bush, the Boca Raton News learned Monday. Boca Raton trauma specialist Douglas Schooler said he has treated 15 […]
What about Tom Coburn?
Several readers have pointed out that Milbank was probably referring to newly elected Senator Tom Coburn when he suggested Republicans would seek the imposition of the death penalty for abortion providers on the Diane Rehm show today. As I noted in my initial post, some pro-lifers do advocate this extreme position, and Coburn is among […]
Jewish and Israeli Symbols Excluded from Anti-Racism March Marking Kristallnacht:
Quite troubling, if accurate. Jan Haugland (Secular Blasphemy) reports: Norwegian anti-racists yesterday were marking the 66th Kristallnacht anniversary, in memory of the brutal beginning of official Nazi-Germany’s genocidal murder of Europe’s jews. In our capital Oslo, the organisation SOS Rasisme refused Jews to participate in the march because they carried jewish symbols and Israeli flags. […]
Computer Crime Note Topics:
Over at De Novo, PG points out that lots of second-year law students at law schools around the country are looking for law review note topics right now. Let me offer a self-interested suggestion: write something in the area of computer crime law. Computer crime law is a new and growing field, and the relatively […]
Advice to Republicans:
From John Tabin in the American Spectator: As John Fund has noted, the dark spot on the GOP’s election came in the state legislatures, where increasing polarization flipped the balance in the Democrats’ very narrow favor. “Republicans shouldn’t forget that their new dominance is tenuous and is unlikely to last if the party remains uncompetitive […]
Forget About Splitting, Let’s Talk About Merging:
In the article Eugene cites to below, Judges Kozinski and Thomas make the argument that bigger circuits are better; there is less bureacracy, less duplication of functions, more focus on delivering justice, and greater consistency of law across a larger number of states. If that’s true, then the Ninth Circuit doesn’t need to be split […]
Election Irregularities:
There is no doubt that there were many election irregularities throughout the country. How serious were they? ABC News reports that some see these problems as evidence of a conspiracy to “steal” the presidency. Serious election experts do not take such claims seriously. Dan Tokaji addresses and debunks many of the conspiracy claims on his […]