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Convictions: Slate's blog on legal issues
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David , you ask whether Obama or Clinton will reply to McCain's attack on those beloved bugaboos, activist judges, and, if so, what they should say. I agree, Doug , that throwing the "activist" insult back at Alito and Roberts, as Howard Dean did, is Read More...
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Twenty-five years ago today, Chicago made history when Harold Washington was sworn in as mayor . The 42 nd person to lead America's Second City, Washington, who was serving in Congress at the time of his election, became the first African-American to 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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For your latest entry in the seemingly non-stop barrage of fawning Barack Obama major-media coverage, look no further than Newsweek 's latest cover, which offers " When Barry Became Barack ." All very interesting, I suppose. But while Newsweek 's on the 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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Kenji, thanks for the props last week—looking 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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Democrat Barack Obama has persuasively made his case to be president of the United States to this former constitutional lawyer for two Republican presidents. Here's why. . . Read More...
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If I teach Constitution Law again, I think I'll be assigning the speech Barack Obama just gave. (I just posted on this over at XX Factor as well). Always seems to me that the toughest thing about teaching Con Law is that in some ways it's a course about Read More...
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The Republicans have a problem: John McCain. Oh, he's a military hero and all, and despite a wife who seems to lurk over him — well, everywhere (Spitzer could have used such a mate) — he is our courageous, if economically unschooled, nominee. I say "our" Read More...
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