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Heritage Foundation Holds Originalism Fantasy Camp For Judicial Clerks
Someone has to teach them how to craft a sneering dissent. -
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Creepy Thinktank Offers Creepy Clerkship Training Course If You Pledge Undying Loyalty
Heritage Foundation wants a covert army of loyalists.
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And This Is Why You Can't Reason With Free Speech Absolutists
It's hard to get people to value something they don't personally need. -
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The Supreme Court Will Functionally Decide If You Can Wear Your #MAGA Hat To Vote
Minnesota's attempts to ban electioneering at polling places run into the power of T-shirts. -
Health Care / Medicine
Conservatives Getting Antsy Over ACA Repeal
“There is a lot less agreement about what comes next.” -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Conferences / Symposia, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Federal Judges, Federalist Society, Guido Calabresi, Immigration, Law Schools, Pictures
Chief Judge Kozinski On The Immigrant Experience And Judging
Here are some highlights for Chief Judge Kozinski's remarks at Yale Law School yesterday. -
Barack Obama, Basketball, Constitutional Law, Election Law, Football, Google / Search Engines, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, Video games
Non-Sequiturs: 07.09.13
* Ed O’Bannon asks the NCAA to agree in writing not to retaliate against any current athlete that joins his lawsuit against the organization. How sad is it that a non-profit organization committed to helping students needs to be reminded not to retaliate against students? In other news, NCAA Football 14 (affiliate link) came out today. [USA Today] * More SCOTUS Term analysis. Tom Goldstein, Adam Liptak, and Jess Bravin have been invited to explain to the Heritage Foundation what an awesome term it had. [Heritage] * The Shelby County decision completely lacks any foundation for the argument that the Voting Rights Act violates the Constitution. Yeah, but besides that… [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * What is wrong with soccer fans? Referee stabs player and then ends up like Ned Stark. [Legal Juice] * Mayer Brown reports that Mexican leaders are lining up behind energy sector reform. [Breaking Energy] * Ever wonder about the extent of Internet censorship around the world? Here’s a handy chart showing how Google is censored in various countries around the world. [io9] * Obama caves to Republican requests to suspend law. Republicans label Obama tyrannical for suspending that law. Bravo. [Wall Street Journal] - Sponsored
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A Preview of the Upcoming Supreme Court Term (OT 2012)
Here's a preview of the upcoming Supreme Court Term, featuring the insights of Paul Clement and Tom Goldstein. -
Adam Liptak, Constitutional Law, Law Professors, Law Reviews, Quote of the Day, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: Why Do You Hate America, Justice Ginsburg?
[A]mong the world’s democracies … constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s. The turn of the twenty-first century, however, saw the beginning of a […] -
Constitutional Law, Election 2012, Gay, Gay Marriage, Health Care / Medicine, Kannon Shanmugam, Litigators, Paul Clement, Politics, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court, Williams & Connolly
A Preview of the Upcoming Supreme Court Term
We’re now in late September, so you know what that means. The first Monday in October, which starts the new Term of the Supreme Court of the United States, is just around the corner. With that in mind, the Heritage Foundation wrangled a high-powered pair of panelists to offer their thoughts on October Term 2011: […] -
Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Money, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas and His Wife's $680,000 of Unreported Income
Who knew that working for a conservative think tank paid so well? The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Virginia Thomas, the politically active wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, earned over $680,000 over five years while working at the Heritage Foundation. That’s pretty nice scratch. A possible problem: according to Common Cause, Clarence […]
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