Author Archive | Orin Kerr

Professor Richard Seamon and his coauthor William Gardner have just put an interesting draft article on the Patriot Act on SSRN: Does (Should) The Patriot Act Raze (or Raise) the Wall Between Foreign Intelligence and Criminal Law Enforcement?, forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

you probably don’t want to take a look at this.

An Oberlin College student passes on the following e-mail sent to the Oberlin student body from college president Nancy Dye in reponse to the re-election of President Bush: November 3, 2004 To the Oberlin College Community: Mark Twain once said that “If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom we need […]

From The Hill, via Wonkette:   That mysterious bulge on President Bush’s back during the first presidential debate was not an electronic device feeding him answers, but a strap holding his bulletproof vest in place.   . . . [S]ources in the Secret Service told The Hill that Bush was wearing a bulletproof vest, as he does most […]

up right now over at Crooked Timber.

Professors Jack Chin (Arizona) and Mark Godsey (Cincinnati) have started a new blog on criminal law, available here.

The apparent inaccuracy of the exit polls yesterday makes me wonder whether the phrase “exit poll” will now enter the American vernacular to mean “a quick impression that is probably wrong.”

The Washington Post has set up this useful site that tracks in real time what states the different TV networks have called for Bush and Kerry.

I’ve received lots of mail in response to my claim that there have been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11/01. There have been attacks, many readers say. Most point to the mailing of anthrax letters in late 2001, and others point to the one-man attack at the El Al counter at the […]

featuring the likes of Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and (to bring out the curious) Wonkette, will be held on Nov. 18 at Topaz in the DuPont Circle area of DC. Details here. I plan to be there; if you’re a VC reader and end up attending, be sure to say hello.

on September 12, 2001, that between then and the November 2, 2004 Presidential election there would be zero additional terrorist attacks in the United States? You never know what’s around the corner, of course, but the big surprise of the last three years has been the dog that didn’t bark. What does it mean? Does […]

Proof available here.

This is ugly.

Today’s Legal Times has an article by Tony Mauro on a recently discovered in-chambers election law opinion from 1912, Marks v. Davis. The text of the opinion, co-signed by Justices Pitney and Van Devanter, is available here. The Mauro article suggests that the newly-discovered opinion may be an important precedent; the article is titled “The […]

Law profs Ellen Podgor and Peter J. Henning have started a new blog, White Collar Crime Prof Blog, the fifth blog to join the Law Professor Blogs Network. Check it out.