Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

I readily admit to being a sucker for anything that combines my two passions in life–law and sports. Thus, I commend to you, a recent paper by my colleage Steve Goldberg commenting on the criteria for choosing Supreme Court Justices. Just as winning the Heisman Trophy does not seem to predict which college football players […]

The Wall Street Journal opines on the wine cases today.

Tomorrow, of course, is oral argument in the wine cases. In thinking of how the cases will come out (and hence what ot look for in oral argument), the test is always to try to figure out how 5 votes line up one way or the other. It seems to me that in trying to […]

I believe that the ability to scan people’s brains to determine whether they are lying could transform much of the criminal and civil justice systems. A story today discusses a recent study that was able to distinguish when subjects were lying versus telling the truth. If this type of information turns out to be reliable […]

Article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses the wine cases, which will soon be argued in the Supreme Court. Not that much new in the article, except for the fact (which I hadn’t seen previously) that former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed is one of the paid lobbyists for the liquor wholesaler industry. The […]

Brannon Denning and I had a delightful conversation at AEI on the Supreme Court wine cases, followed by an terrific discussion of the medical marijuana cases as well. Or as the moderator put it, “For today’s purposes, alcohol is just a gateway to marijuana.” For interested readers, you can find my collected VC blogs collected […]

Frontiers of Freedom today posted a press release and letter addressed to Senator Frist and signed by several leaders of conservative think tanks and lobbying organizations opposing Sen. Specter’s appointment to head the Senate Judiciary Committee.

For those who may have missed it, Robert Novak has an interesting and informative column on the Specter situation today.

I will be participating in a program next Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute speaking on the wine cases in the Supreme Court. Brannon Denning from Cumberland Law School will also be on the panel; Hew Pate of DOJ will moderate. Information and registration material is here. My panel will be followe by one on […]

According to the final tally, I see that the Libertarian Party candidate Michael Bednarik got almost as many votes nationwide as Nader. Curious that the media nonetheless covered Nader throughout the race, while ignoring Bednarik (for instance, on the Washington Post web site with the tally, you can link to background stories on Nader, but […]

Comments filed with the Antitrust Modernization Commission have been posted and can be found here.

I see that The Onion has a special page that collects its election-related stories from the past few months. My favorite still remains “Kerry Makes Whistle-Stop Tour from Deck of Yacht.”

My series of Wine War posts is now available on line to be downloaded. You can find it here.

In response to my gripe about campaign spam from the Bush-Cheney Campaign, I received confirmation that apparently campaign spam is bipartisan this go-around: Over the last week, I have: 4 directly from from Kerry Edwards campaign 1 from Terry McAuliffe 1 from Howard Dean 2 from Democratic Party 1 from Al Gore Not to mention […]

Is anyone else getting spammed to death by the Bush-Cheney Campaign (or perhaps Kerry-Edwards as appropriate)? I swear every day I open my email I have at least one email from “Mark Racicot” or “Ed Gillespie.” Is this their way of trying to get me to contribute more money–by annoying me?