Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Posts
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Jack argues that one of the government's legal approaches to terror threats-bring early cases against people who pose remote threats, rather than waiting for them to act, so as to disrupt terror plots even at the risk of failing to secure convictions-is Read More...
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Thanks Emily for pointing out the wrongheadedness of McCain’s opposition to the Equal Pay Bill. This very mild piece of legislation would have undone an incredibly bad Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter which held that the filing period to bring a Title Read More...
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Thanks to Marty and Phil for highlighting the recent NYT report that the U.S. incarcerates more of its people-and for longer periods-than any other nation, bar none. I was disappointed, though, that the story did not discuss the devastatingly disproportionate Read More...
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Last night, Senate Republicans killed the Equal Pay Bill, which would have undone the Supreme Court's bad deed in a case last term called Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co . Lily Ledbetter sued Goodyear for sex discrimination because she earned Read More...
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A new poll that shows that 16 percent of Pennsylvania white voters who were asked whether “the race of candidate was important” said yes—80 percent saidno. Of those who answered “yes” 54 percent said they’d support Obama in the general election—27 percent Read More...
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Phil says "And, the fact that America still leads the world in violent crime raises fundamental questions about whether we're getting it right." The premise is not correct. According to the United Nations world survey (the latest I could find was 2002, Read More...
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Marty, I agree with your suggestion that yesterday's story by Adam Liptak in the New York Times may be the biggest legal story of the last several years -- notwithstanding all the ink and electrons we've spilled about torture, executive power, and so Read More...
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