In a National Review piece, Kris W. Kobach, one of the drafters of the Arizona law, offers a series of defenses of the statute that seem quite strong to me, among them this: The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized … Continue reading →
Glenn Reynolds gives out a call: I’m interested in movies and TV about law and lawyers ”” not just stuff with a legal setting, but stuff that revolves around lawyers and what people think of them. Any suggestions? Movies about … Continue reading →
Froma Harrop is a liberal. But (perhaps surprisingly) she does not think Obama is wise in pursuing the lawsuit against the state of Arizona. Harrop thinks it’s an especially bad idea in the political sense: The Obama administration is challenging … Continue reading →
I like the cut of Governor Brewer’s jib: Today I was notified that the federal government has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona. It is wrong that our own federal government is suing the people of Arizona for … Continue reading →
The Obama administration has decided to go forward with the threatened lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law, and the approach will be that the state has pre-empted the federal government’s over-arching right to regulate immigration. Never mind that the feds have … Continue reading →
it’s a little challenging to follow all the twisting and turnings, but let’s give it a go. One of Obama’s most oft-repeated campaign pledges was that he would not raise taxes on anyone but the rich (defined variously, but usually … Continue reading →
…but they grind exceedingly fine. [NOTE: See this for a previous post of mine on the subject.]
Continue reading →Governor Crist of Florida has vetoed legislation that would have made viewing of their sonograms mandatory for women contemplating first-trimester abortions: Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have required women seeking a first-trimester abortion to pay for … Continue reading →
Joran van der Sloot, the man who almost certainly killed Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, has confessed to murdering another young woman in Peru. Thus, justice of a sort will finally come—unfortunately, too late to save his latest victim, … Continue reading →
Critics of Israel’s action in the flotilla operation keep saying that the Gaza-bound ship was in international waters and that therefore the boarding was illegal. This seems self-evident—to those ignorant of international law on the matter. And of course the … Continue reading →
Remember our friend the Lockerbie bomber, Al Megrahi? The one who got a “get out of jail free” card back in August of 2009 because he only had three months to live, max? Well, it’s nine months later and Al … Continue reading →
If Meghan McArdle’s projections are correct, you better hope not. Maybe it would be better to defund it if possible in 2011, get some intelligent stopgap (is that an oxymoron?) measure in there, and then repeal the earlier bill in … Continue reading →