One of the odd things about the latest announcement in the Zimmerman case is that the charge was second-degree murder. That’s much heftier than was expected, but it could have been done in order to temporarily placate those crying for … Continue reading →
…has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder. You may have noticed that so far I have refrained from drawing any conclusions about Zimmerman’s guilt or innocence, because we just don’t know enough about the facts of the case. … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Bumped up. Scroll down for new posts.] My new article is up at PJ. I urge you to go there and read it. Not just because I wrote it, but because I think it deals with something vitally important: … Continue reading →
Is it that the author of this piece, David Dow, is actually a professor of law? Or that he actually might believe what he’s saying? Or that perhaps he doesn’t, but is just saying it to stir up ye olde … Continue reading →
…for President Obama: did you really mean it, or were you just blowing smoke? This is rather “unprecedented,” to use one of Obama’s favorite words. The court’s question came up in a separate Obamacare case presently before a 3-judge panel … Continue reading →
President Obama must have really overstepped yesterday when he warned the Supreme Court justices against ruling Obamacare unconstitutional. How do I know? WaPo columnist Ruth Marcus is criticizing him for his remarks. What caused her to take this enormous step, … Continue reading →
…on what the meaning of “strong” is. Obama warns the Supremes about overturning HCR [emphasis mine]: “Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was … Continue reading →
So much praise has been heaped on Paul Clement, lawyer for the Obamacare opposition, that it made me wonder about him—just who he was and what he was doing before this particular case came his way. Clement’s got a lengthy … Continue reading →
The latest liberal meme is that if the Court rules against Obamacare it will be such an egregious case of conservative judicial activism that the Court will become illegitimate. My question is: to whom? The 72% of the American public … Continue reading →
Jonathan Adler asks the question: why did legal elites underestimate the case against the mandate? You might want to give quick and flippant answers—such as, for instance, “because they’re stupid and biased”—but that really doesn’t tell us much. Legal elites … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed a lot of speculation today about the way the questioning is going in the Supreme Court, and what it might mean for the ultimate ruling. And that’s as it should be. It’s a case of unusual importance, and … Continue reading →
Three days of oral arguments is a long time in SCOTUS-land, indicating that the Court considers the issues in the HCR case incredibly important. And yet this hasn’t stopped some liberal commentators (see this, for example) from preemptively suggesting that … Continue reading →