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Althouse - Oct 6, 2008
Come on, talk. I'll meet up with you later. I'm going to go listen to Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute talk about what sort of judges we might expect a President Obama/McCain to appoint. The event is down the hall …
Also tagged: law, photography, law school, cafe, plants
Althouse - Oct 6, 2008
SCOTUSblog, as always, will be paying attention. In fact, they'll be live-blogging the release of the orders list here, and here are short descriptions of the 3 cases that are up for oral argument this morning. The …
Also tagged: smoking
Althouse - Oct 2, 2008
Now, after analyzing the interview with Palin, I want to look at Katie Couric's interview with Joe Biden on the same subject, Roe v. Wade: Katie Couric: Why do you think Roe v. Wade was a good decision? Joe Biden …
Also tagged: law, journalism, katie couric, gender politics, federalism, biden
Althouse - Oct 2, 2008
There's a lot of mockery of Sarah Palin's performance responding to Katie Couric's questions about Roe v. Wade. (There's a video clip at the link, with a commercial.) Let's read the transcript: Couric: Why, in your …
Also tagged: law, congress, abortion, katie couric, sarah palin
Althouse - Oct 1, 2008
SCOTUSblog reports: The Supreme Court, issuing the first orders for the Term that opens formally next week, on Wednesday refused to rehear its ruling striking down the death penalty for the crime of child rape, but …
Also tagged: death penalty, rape
Althouse - Sep 26, 2008
He's rejecting the efficiency of the system of shared law clerks in which clerk writes a memo relied on by Justices using the pool to decide whether to grant the petition to the Supreme Court to hear a case. A …
Althouse - Sep 11, 2008
Great article in the New Republic about the genesis of the Violence Against Women Act. Read the whole thing. I want to highlight the fact that a central figure in the story, Victoria Nourse, went on to become a lawprof …
Also tagged: law, crime, feminism, rape, federalism, biden, university of wisconsin, vawa, victoria nourse
Althouse - Sep 7, 2008
He writes: [Clarence Thomas] has less than fond memories of his treatment by Biden, who chaired his stormy 1991 hearing. In his 2007 memoir "My Grandfather's Son," Thomas recalls that Biden initially kept Anita Hill's …
Also tagged: clarence thomas, alito, john roberts, biden, bork
Althouse - Aug 29, 2008
8:26: I don't know what it says about me, but I got up this morning and didn't think about the McCain VP announcement on my own. It wasn't until I turned on the TV news that the subject occurred to me. On the day Obama …
Also tagged: abortion, sarah palin, mccain, gender politics, bill clinton, obama, hillary, nabokov, emotional althouse, ginsburg
Althouse - Aug 29, 2008
8:26: I don't know what it says about me, but I got up this morning and didn't think about the McCain VP announcement on my own. It wasn't until I turned on the TV news that the subject occurred to me. On the day Obama …
Also tagged: sarah palin, mccain, gender politics, bill clinton, obama, hillary, nabokov, emotional althouse, ginsburg