The San Francisco Chronicle reports the National Lawyers Guild and several Berkeley student organizations are pressuring a state government attorney to drop plans to co-teach a class on “Constitutional Design and the California Constitution” with former OLC attorney John Yoo. “By instructing a class with Mr. Yoo, you are helping to legitimize his illegal and […]
Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler
ClimateGate and the Cost of Blurring Science and Politics
Daniel Sarewitz and Samuel Thernstrom, of Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and the American Enterprise Institute respectively, co-authored an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times on how the debate over leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, and climate change more broadly, is colored by the mistaken […]
The Heart of America
The health care reform advocacy group Public Option Please sponsored a pro-public option art contest. Here is the winning entry. I suspect many health care reform supporters find this poster inspiring for the same reasons many health care reform opponents find it disconcerting. UPDATE: It appears the quote on the poster is actually the work […]
DoJ vs. Civil Rights Commission
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants to investigate the Department of Justice’s handling of voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. According to this report, the Justice Department is instructing its attorneys not to cooperate. The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought […]
En Banc Roundtable on Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB – Round 2
The Vanderbilt Law Review has now posted a second round of comments in its En Banc Roundtable on Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The contributors are Peter Strauss, Richard Pildes, Stephen Calabresi and Christopher Yoo, Harold Bruff, and Gary Lawson. Here’s a roundup of post-argument commentary. More VC posts on this […]
Ben Bernanke – Person of the Year
Time magazine has named Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke “Person of the Year” for 2009. It’s also posted information on the “runners-up.”
ANSWER Prevails in D.C. Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has reversed a district court’s dismissal of a suit by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition (“ANSWER”) and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation challenging the District of Columbia Department of Transportation’s regulations governing the placement of posters. The district court had dismissed […]
Revkin from NYT to Pace
Pace University announced this morning that New York Times science and environment correspondent Andrew Revkin will be leaving the paper to become a “Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding” at the University’s Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.
May CRS Analysts Criticize the President’s Policies?
Earlier this month, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) informed Col. Morris Davis he would be dismissed from his position as assistant director of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division. His job ends on December 21, at the end of a one-year probationary period. CRS won’t comment publicly on the matter, by it has been […]
An Oasis Reborn
Today’s NYT has an interesting story on the ecological restoration of Nevada’s infamous Mustang Ranch.
Sunday Song Lyric
I caught Katy Perry Unplugged on Palladia the other night. I was impressed. There’s more to her than the pop tart image would suggest. I was also quite surprised that one of the songs she chose to perform was “Hackensack” by Fountains of Wayne, a gem from Welcome Interstate Managers (an album better known for […]
Geothermal Energy on the Rocks
The NYT reports: The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned. The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy […]
Bats Stall Wind Farm
“This is a case about bats, wind turbines, and two federal polices, one favoring protection of endangered species and the other encouraging development of renewable energy resources.” So begins a federal district court opinion halting expansion of a wind farm in West Virginia because of likely harm to endangered Indiana bats. The project must obtain […]
PCAOB Blogging
I haven’t had the chance to read Monday’s oral argument transcript in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, so I don’t have much new to say about the case. Fortunately, there are lots of other legal bloggers and academics who are more focused on the case, and they’ve been writing quite a […]
Medical Marijuana in D.C.?
According to Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act will end restrcitions on the District of Columbia’s ability to implement the medical marijuana initiative passed by District voters several years back. It will be interesting to see how the Justice Department responds.