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  • Ricci Limerick

    I'm behind in my reading, and I can't believe no one took Ms. Lithwick up on her invitation to find a limerick for the Ricci case, so I've surely missed the relevant thread. But I took a crack at it, and here 'tis: If New Haven's standards were too exact, Their results were sure to have disparate impact. But for poor, Mr. Ricci Will they ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by gluon1 on June 30, 2009

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Inconsistent view of Roberts

    Two claims, in one paragraph, are inconsistent: Justice Alito was never seriously believed to be more conservative or even more overtly conservative than John Robertsand John Roberts [was] still widely, if wrongly, billed at that time as a temperate bridge-builder
    Posted to Jurisprudence by srdiamond on February 8, 2008

  • Thank you for the discussion

    I'd especially like to thank Walter for his exceptionally moving reflections before and after the schools case came down on the real life meanings of segregation and racial difference in this society--truly America's original sin passed down from generation to generation (and thanks for the Charlie Black quote!). I'm not generally such a great ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by The Wise Bard on June 29, 2007

  • Academics and realists

    I wouldn't call the Roberts-Alito-Scalia-Thomas axis of the Supreme Court ''mean,'' although that's a fair description of the result when they apply their theories to the Constitution. The term I'd probably use is ''academic.'' I know, that word usually is reserved for pointy-head liberal intellectuals, but it's really an apt description of how ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by randy-khan on June 27, 2007