Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

The current text of the House stimulus bill includes the following interesting provision: None of the funds provided by this Act may be made available to the State of Illinois, or any agency of the State, unless (1) the use of such funds by the State is approved in legislation enacted by the State after […]

Want to know what’s in the stimulus bill? ReadtheStimulus.org has links to the relevant documents and summaries.

Nick Gillespie offers a highly critical assessment of the Bush presidency in yesterday’s WSJ. As Gillespie shows, Bush was a “big government” conservative, and even conservatives who supported the Bush Administration’s foreign policy and counter-terror measures should be disappointed with other aspects of his legacy. If increases in government spending matter, then Mr. Bush is […]

The NYT reports on a recent poll that shows declining public concern about environmental problems, including global warming. This confirms that environmental problems remain “second tier” public concerns that are easily overshadowed by other issues, such as the economy or national security. In the poll, released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, global warming […]

David’s great post below inspired this week’s song choice: The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” — a great song by a great band, off of their best-selling (though hardly best) studio album, Combat Rock. Here’s one of the verses, without the Ecuadorian Spanish backup. This indecision

My own remarks at the Santa Clara Law Review Symposium on

Jeffrey Rosen delivered the keynote address at the Santa Clara Law Review symposium on “Big Business and the Roberts Court: Explaining the Court’s Receptiveness to Business Interests,” which is only appropriate as the conference theme was inspired by his NYT magazine article

The third panel at the Santa Clara Law Review symposium on “Big Business and the Roberts Court: Explaining the Court’s Receptiveness to Business Interests,” featured Vikram Amar (UC Davis), Pam Karlan (Stanford) and yours truly. Click to show remainder of post. Vikram Amar spoke on the implication of changing Court personnel on the Court

The second panel at the Santa Clara Law Review symposium on “Big Business and the Roberts Court: Explaining the Court’s Receptiveness to Business Interests,” featured political scientist J. Mitchell Pickerill of Washington State University, David Franklin of DePaul University of Law, and moderated by Tracy George of Vanderbilt Law School. Click to show remainder of […]

This is the first in a series of semi-live bog posts on the Santa Clara Law Review symposium on “Big Business and the Roberts Court: Explaining the Court’s Receptiveness to Business Interests.” The morning opened with welcoming remarks from Santa Clara University School of Law Dean Donald Polden. After a warm welcome to the participants […]

Tomorrow I will be participating in the Santa Clara Law Review symposium on “Big Business and the Roberts Court: Explaining the Court’s Receptiveness to Business Interests.” Jeffrey Rosen, whose NYT magazine article “Supreme Court, Inc.” no doubt helped inspire the conference, will deliver the keynote address tomorrow afternoon. (We discussed Rosen’s article on the VC […]

The trial of Saddam Hussein was mired in controversy from start to finish. Opponents of the Iraq invasion attacked it from the outset, and many international law experts questioned whether a domestic tribunal, such as that created to try Hussein and other members of his regime, was an appropriate means to prosecute a head of […]

Carolyn Lochhead has an interesting story in the San Francisco Chronicle on the flubbed oath at yesterday’s inauguration: The oath reads: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United […]

Brian Kalt has some interesting presidential trivia and outlines an inaugural line-of-succession teaching moment over at Concurring Opinions.

Jack Balkin reports that Marty Lederman and David Barron have joined the Office of Legal Counsel as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General respectively. Barron will also serve as Acting AAG pending Dawn Johnson’s confirmation as OLC’s AAG. Given these appointments, some readers may be interested in their recent Harvard Law […]