Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

I agree with Orin that there is much to comment in Rob Loblaw’s post, but I disagree with the bottom line. If Higazy sought to have his allegations kept secret, I would agree that keeping such information under seal would not be particularly sinister or problematic. Yet that does not appear to be what happened […]

Japan consumes the lion’s share of Bluefin tuna, but it has plenty of company in its love of this flavorful fish. The growing popularity of sushi, and the use of sushi-grade tuna in other dishes, is putting tremendous pressure on wild stocks of the prized fish. Japan — after years of overfishing a species that […]

From the Washington Post: Researchers at Ohio State University garnered little attention in February when they found that youngsters who lose their virginity earlier than their peers are more likely to become juvenile delinquents. So obvious and well established was the contribution of early sex to later delinquency that the idea was already part of […]

Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” is simply one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s timeless. A Floyd song even non-Floyd fans can love. It only ranked #316 in Rolling Stone‘s list of greatest songs (which is probably reason #423 why such lists are a waste of time), but it’s worth posting as […]

The finale of “The Next Iron Chef” pits Cleveland culinary star Michael Symon against New Orleans’ John Besh. I’m pulling for Symon, of course. Here’s a profile of him from today’s Plain Dealer. UPDATE: **SPOILER ALERT** Congratulations to Michael Symon, the new Iron Chef. Allez Cuisine! CPD coverage is here, and here’s Symon’s new blog, […]

Yesterday, California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to rule quickly enough on the Golden State’s request for a waiver of Clean Air Act preemption of its greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles sold in the state. The state’s complaint is here. As a legal matter, there is not much to […]

Rick Hasen explains why Stephen Colbert’s satirical candidacy, however funny, “raises some serious questions about the appropriate role of corporate money in the election process.

Marty Lederman on Higazy: What was the justification for the court “sealing” Higazy’s allegations in the first instance? I am aware of no doctrine in law, or other policy, that permits the FBI or any other law-enforcement or intelligence agency to prevent individuals from describing how they were treated by our government. The fact that […]

Majid Khan is a CIA detainee. In meetings with his attorneys, Khan has apparently made allegations concerning his treatment during his detention. Yet such information, even as detailed by Khan himself, is presumptively classified, and his attorneys are apparently barred from relating Khan’s claims to Congress. Marty Lederman finds this “absurd,” and I am inclined […]

A reader passes along this link to a discussion of waterboarding by Malcolm Nance at Small Wars Journal. Nance appears to have much more knowledge of waterboarding, and how it has been utilized in military training, than most who opine on the subject. It seems to me his perspective should be taken quite seriously. He […]

President Bush will nominate Harvard Professor Mary Ann Glendon to be Ambassador to the Vatican.

Last Friday, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Morales v. Mitchell, yet another in a long line of divided habeas decisions from my home circuit. As with many of the divided habeas panels, the case concerned the habeas petition of a death row inmate and the […]

Voting for the 2007 Weblog Awards is open. The Conspiracy was nominated for “Best Law Blog.” Under the rules, you are allowed to vote once for each category every 24 hours, so you can vote again if you have not yet voted today. I am not saying you should necessarily vote for the VC. Other […]

Senator Fred Thompson appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning. The transcript is here. One thing I found notable about the interview was Thompson’s explicit commitment to federalist principles. Here is how he described his views: I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred […]

Former Bush economic adviser Gregory Mankiw discusses three “true but misleading statements about health care that politicians and pundits love to use to frighten the public.” 1. The United States has lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality than Canada, which has national health insurance. 2. Some 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. […]