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  • Death or Life without parole.

    A 13 year old should not be sentence to death without parole. However: If I were 18 years old and had to choose between death or life without parole, I'd choose death without any hesitation.
    Posted to Jurisprudence by mlr on November 5, 2009

  • Women Justices

    If women make better judges because they have been discriminated against how about putting in black justices? Or other minorities?
    Posted to Jurisprudence by david wayne osedach on October 2, 2009

  • Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar

    I witnessed the changes to the healthcare delivery system in the mid 70's. Goldfarb did contribute to how we got to where we are now but you can't ignor Nixon's HMO endorsement. That made healthcare investment grade. But it ain't all bad. Health care was a backwater before then. A researcher would get a science grant and disappear into his ...
    Posted to Prescriptions by gdsavthqn on July 30, 2009

  • Article III is pretty clear

    ''The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority...''   ''In...the...Cases...mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact...''   There you have it. Someone ...
    Posted to Books by rjhuntington on July 8, 2009

  • Supreme Court message to Sotomayor

    The firemens' case is now closed, Promotional test's reimposed; The High Court's recision Of this one decision Tells Sotomayor she'll get hosed. News Short n' Sweet by JFD8 http://twitter.com/JFD8
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by JD8 on June 29, 2009

  • Is this really the best that Slate can do?

    I understand that Slate, like any news/commentary website has a lot of real estate to fill every day and that any possible angle on the Sotomayor story is potentially newsworthy...but this one isn't. To worry now, amid a scum-soup of racial and misogynistic attacks on her judicial temperament and ''intelligence'', is simply not newsworthy and ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Harmiclir on June 1, 2009

  • Worry About Tribalism, Not Possible Incapacity

    Sotomayor's UC Berkeley speech was mostly courageous and reasonable. She is right that it is impossible to separate life experience from how you view the world, and how you view the world from how you work. She is right that our courts will benefit from a breadth of experience that they now lack. But she betrayed in various places a pathogenic ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by cornholio on May 29, 2009

  • Ridiculous times, dumb Prez.

    ''Republicans risk damaging their party's already dismal standing with women and Hispanics...'' Ok, this is another ridiculous example of our ass-backward times. Why, these days, do people (especially minorities and/or woman), think that it's more important to hire someone or give them a higher position because of their sex or race? What ever ...
    Posted to Politics by JB007 on May 26, 2009

  • The Forgotten Judicial Virtue: Consistency

    Activist vs. Strict Constructionist? Liberal vs. Conservative? Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice? Empathetic vs. (what?) Socioapathic? As a practicing lawyer, there is another set of virtues I am particularly concerned about which don't seem to make the list of the debated traits for the new Justice. Predictability & Consistency. We sometimes ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by john adkisson on May 23, 2009

  • more than feelings

    Women make up slightly more than half of the US population. They should make up at last half of the Supreme Court.
    Posted to Jurisprudence by david wayne osedach on May 21, 2009
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