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  • 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

  • The First Amendment

    While an independent judiciary is a nice convenience, it is not the sole or even the necessary protection of the First Amendment. The real protection for the First Amendment is the people, as voters and as citizens and if necessary as activists. If we elect representatives and presidents who respect our liberties, we will not need an independent ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Breadbaker on September 20, 2007

  • So what's the solution?

    Wow, degsme. Thanks for the great posts. So, what's the plan? How do we solve this? (I hope I wasn't the one who name called, for goodness sake, we haven't stooped that low, have we?) On many of these issues we are just in disagreement. I will always think my grandparents worked in a diverse environment in Eastern Washington because as a city ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 15, 2007

  • The Seattle Problem

    I think Mr.Dellinger doesn't understand the issue in Seattle when he chides Chief Justice Roberts for comparing historic racism in the South to the SSD's policies. Of course, they are radically different. And no white person in Seattle would ever say that their experiences over the past 3-4 decades could ever equate to those of an African American ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 1, 2007

  • 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