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  • SCOTUS HITS PRIMETIME WITH BOTH BARRELS BLAZING...

    OMIGOSH this was breathtaking. I haven't watched ten minutes of this series in toto, and I just happened to flip to this (I'm assuming from the '15 minutes' description given) moments after it started. I was awed. That David E. Kelley had the audacity to address this court, this directly, this specifically and with this brio, was exhilarating. ...
    Posted to Convictions by AlexR on April 24, 2008

  • Ask the Pope - Supreme Court and the Death Penalty

    Perfect timing, on his second day in the US the Supreme Court approves the use of lethal injection. What would the pope say ?
    Posted to Fighting Words by jerseyview on April 16, 2008

  • Mayville, NY

    I was in Mayville, the county seat out on Lake Chautauqua a number of years ago around Halloween, in a diner just down the hill from the last public hanging in the state of New York. Across the street at the county courthouse was the media van with its satellite up link. A young man had been arrested for allegedly knowing he had AIDS, had sex with ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by georgejmyersjr on April 14, 2008

  • Hand guns, D.C. "well-regulated militia"

    May I recommend a look at the source of the 2nd amendment, article VI of the Articles of the Confederation. Here is the middle paragraph: . No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled, for the defense of such State, or its ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Michael S. Cullen on March 30, 2008

  • Two words in response

    Supreme Court are good reasons to make second choice McCain until then make mine a Hillary
    Posted to Best of the Fray by jeqal on March 30, 2008

  • Lithwick is late to the party

    The construction of the 2A, though awkward, has been thoroughly hashed over by legal academics for decades, and as admitted by everyone but the diehard intentionally blind far statists, its an individual right. Let's hope the SCOTUS opinion at least puts that to rest, so reporters like Lithwick can quit misconstruing it. Since DC is directly ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by ruralcounsel on March 19, 2008

  • sarcasm

    sarcasm seems the only refuge of the loosing side?? surely the return to original intent is paramount in this case. I am not a gun owner and would not have one in my house.
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by lenpgh on March 19, 2008

  • colbert is right!

    it's the bears! justice kennedy well knows that the major threat to the republic is bears! that's why we need a militia! where do you think the phrase ''bear arms'' comes from? they're arms used to shoot bears!!!
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by gzuckier on March 19, 2008

  • Nothing Up My Sleeve

    I think the focus is drawn too tightly on the tedious sword play over varying interpretations of the Second Amendment. This fight is less about what the framers intended than it is about gun industry profits. We should think long and hard before we allow anyone to pry open the Constitution using capitalism as a crow bar.
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by water on March 19, 2008

  • Exxon paid enough?

    So much more to this story. Exxon had insurance which paid. The rest was a ''write-off'' against the 5 Billion profit the year of the original judgement. The US Government even rewarded Exxon and allowed the merger with Mobil, making it the largest oil Giant in the world. Now ExxonMobil makes 40 Billion a year. The current reduced fine is 2.5 ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by cordovan on March 7, 2008
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