Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Posts
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One of the students in my Separation of Powers class flags that Barack Obama has proposed that the director of national intelligence be given a fixed term, "like the Chairman of the Federal Reserve," in order to "insulate the [DNI] from political pressure." Read More...
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Both the Clinton campaign and our comrades at Trailhead are complaining that Barack Obama was, in fact, never a law professor. Well was he? Sorry Trailhead, but it's not so clear-cut. To see why requires a quick visit through the mists and mysteries of Read More...
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Over at Obsidian Wings , my friend Publius [ not his real name -- a.w. ] suggests that states should enjoy flexibility under the Second Amendment to calibrate gun-control regulations in light of the varying needs of different cities and towns: If your Read More...
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Like any associate at a big law firm in a major city, I'm keeping a close eye on layoff trends . I'm a little less worried for my friends in various M&A shops, however, now that I've seen DealBreaker's coverage of how Wall Street is adapting to new Read More...
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When Linda Greenhouse recently announced that she was leaving the New York Times , it was a sad day for Supreme Court coverage. Now there's good Greenhouse news--and a coup for Yale Law School. Greenhouse will be the law school's Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence Read More...
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In a major foreign policy address today to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Sen. John McCain offered a few policy ideas that sounded, well, downright Democratic, even going so far as to cite Truman and Kennedy as role models: America must be a model Read More...
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Last week I cited an L.A. Times feature on the Tupac Shakur killing as part of a post on Eliot Spitzer and Dickie Scruggs. Serious questions have now been raised about the accuracy of that story, which hinges upon a series of documents provided to the Read More...
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Back to Jack in a bit. Adam Liptak's NYT article notes that foreign courts don't like to enforce American punitive damages awards, a position that Liptak's interviewees attribute to foreign discomfort with the American jury system and American-style punitive Read More...
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Kenji, thanks for the props last weekâlooking forward to continuing our conversations here and elsewhere. Since we basically agree on the Obama speech, I wonder what you thought of Christopher Hitchens' characteristically energetic denunciation of same. Read More...
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I fear that my jest at the beginning of my previous post on judicial restraint caused Eric Posner to miss the real point of my discussion of judicial review. (Perhaps he didn't read anything after the jump.) continue reading at Balkinization . . . Read More...
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