Non-Sequiturs: 06.11.15
* More whining about President Obama opining on Supreme Court cases while the justices "deliberate" -- as though anyone's opinion is up in the air. Apparently presidents have rarely done this. Fun fact: cynical lawyers have rarely gotten to the Supreme Court to attack a president's landmark legislation on a tortured textual reading, but here we are. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * It's like the Hangover. Except in prison. With more drugs. [Legal Juice] * Hey, remember when Jeb Bush got behind a law that required rape victims to publish their sexual histories in the newspaper until the law was shot down by the courts two years later? Good times. [Salon] * The Right proclaims Jeb Bush really doesn't believe in publicly shaming women for having sex. Hm. See item 3 supra. [Legal Insurrection] * Wow. The Senate actually passed something. It's a resolution hailing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Is it a sign of my cynicism that I'm shocked even that got approved? [Constitutional Accountability Center] * Why the rationale of Roe doesn't really matter. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Fourth Circuit panel snipes at each other over whether to call out overzealous prosecutors. It got so bad they actually sealed the opinion. [Maryland Appellate Blog] * Derek Khanna has a new report on patent reform written with Lincoln Labs. The fundamental premise: patents are not encouraging innovation any more. [Lincoln Labs] * Watchdog is reporting that Kroll Associates conveniently overlooked dozens of terrible LSAT scores in its report on University of Texas admission standards. It bears repeating: just how dumb must Abigail Fisher be to not get into this school? [Watchdog] * A short memoir about suing The Grateful Dead. [The Faculty Lounge]
* More whining about President Obama opining on Supreme Court cases while the justices “deliberate” — as though anyone’s opinion is up in the air. Apparently presidents have rarely done this. Fun fact: cynical lawyers have rarely gotten to the Supreme Court to attack a president’s landmark legislation on a tortured textual reading, but here we are. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* It’s like the Hangover. Except in prison. With more drugs. [Legal Juice]
* Hey, remember when Jeb Bush got behind a law that required rape victims to publish their sexual histories in the newspaper until the law was shot down by the courts two years later? Good times. [Salon]
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* The Right proclaims Jeb Bush really doesn’t believe in publicly shaming women for having sex. Hm. See item 3 supra. [Legal Insurrection]
* Wow. The Senate actually passed something. It’s a resolution hailing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Is it a sign of my cynicism that I’m shocked even that got approved? [Constitutional Accountability Center]
* Why the rationale of Roe doesn’t really matter. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
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* Fourth Circuit panel snipes at each other over whether to call out overzealous prosecutors. It got so bad they actually sealed the opinion. [Maryland Appellate Blog]
* Derek Khanna has a new report on patent reform written with Lincoln Labs. The fundamental premise: patents are not encouraging innovation any more. [Lincoln Labs]
* Watchdog is reporting that Kroll Associates conveniently overlooked dozens of terrible LSAT scores in its report on University of Texas admission standards. It bears repeating: just how dumb must Abigail Fisher be to not get into this school? [Watchdog]
* A short memoir about suing The Grateful Dead. [The Faculty Lounge]