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Category Archives: Constitution
Thoughts on the Kagan Nomination
Paul Campos, writing over at the “Lawyers Guns & Money” blog has a piece I highly recommend reviewing if you feel at all inclined. While he unearths little more about Kagan’s political beliefs than was revealed in the nomination hearings, … Continue reading
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The Best Commentary on Sotomayor to Date
Courtesy of the brilliant Charles Krauthammer Well, as we heard today, she has a great American story. And — but there is someone else here, as we just heard, who also has a great American story, and that is Frank … Continue reading
Belbourne: Day 4
Saw the court/legal district, and then headed over to the SHOPPING district! WOW!
book banning and other misadventures
For those of you who are unaware, I recently got into a huge blog-fight with a friend of mine on her blog. Her post, entitled “Ban Books…..yeah….fu** you!!!” was essentially an expletive-laced, rant about how backwards and dangerous Sarah Palin … Continue reading
Posted in Constitution, Culture, Books, Arts, arts/entertainment
Tagged banning, Books, libraries
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Bush is Destroying the Constitution!… o, wait…
The New York Times just published an article explaining how congressional Democrats are going to pass a bill extending the N.S.A. wiretapping program. Now this is certainly an oddity. The same democrats who cheered that they had “killed the patriot … Continue reading
Posted in Constitution, Foreign Affairs, Politics
Tagged bill, democrats, freedoms, ineffective, terrorism, wiretapping
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A new political era…
The recent events surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” comment have caught my particular attention this week. For those of you who are unaware, Rush Limbaugh recently said two words, “phony soldiers”, in passing, to a caller in response to a … Continue reading
“Popular Democracy and Judicial Review”
I just finished listening to a really great podast compliments of the official Stanford podcast (side note: I highly recommend adding this to your itunes podcast selection for the content quality and variety alone). The speaker was Larry D. Kramer … Continue reading
The Commercial Speech Doctrine – Past and Future.
Commercial speech has been uniquely categorized in American law. In fact, this process of splitting speech into various categories has been a hallmark of American Constitutional jurisprudence. Pulling from both British common law and more modern doctrines, the Supreme Court … Continue reading