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• Crawford

  Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:49 PM by Richard Ford
  
  
  
  I just can’t muster up a lot of outrage about Indiana’s Voter ID law. Tim is right that we have a de facto national ID now. The Indiana law is nothing like a poll tax: This law may or may not be attacking a nonexistent problem of voter fraud, but either Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, David Barron, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board

• Maternal Profiling—Single Moms as a Suspect Class

  Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:16 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  When employers disregard the cultural importance of family, single moms are on the front lines of hardship and insult. Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, Deborah Pearlstein, law firm, gender equity

• Fundamentally Speaking

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 3:08 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  So here's where I think our arguments are passing in the ether, Jack. First, I've always understood there to be an at least doctrinal (perish the thought) distinction between "fundamental rights" and "everything in the Bill of Rights." (So when, for example, Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, Second Amendment, fundamental rights

• About that “Progressive Constitutional” Thing

  Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 1:19 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  With growing appreciation of Jack and Dahlia (and growing bewilderment at how any of us will keep up with our day jobs in a post- Convictions world), let me offer a few thoughts in response to Jack's post on the Second Amendment and more broadly on constitutional Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, 2d amendment, fundamental rights

• What's Fundamental About a Fundamental Right?

  Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:05 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  [Deborah Pearlstein] Can't wait to read the Obama posts, but first thanks to Jack for the interesting post about the nature of constitutional rights, fundamental and otherwise. Nonetheless, I confess it didn't quite overcome my lingering sense of puzzlement Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, Heller

• So, Who Is Minding the Executive's Store?

  Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 6:08 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  On the David/Emily/Dahlia/Orin chat about how many are minding the unitary executive's store in selling the Heller case to the court, I agree with Orin's speculation that there are certainly some (conservative) base politics at work here in the VP's amicus Read More...
  Filed under: Deborah Pearlstein, Heller, Solicitor General

• Convicted

  Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 2:15 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Despite the years that I've labored in the law of crime, today marks the first time I find myself on a " Convictions " list. Happily, I've assumed the label not in a court of law but in this court of public opinion just launched by Slate . The brains Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, Deborah Pearlstein, Abu Ghraib, John Paul Stevens, globalization, international law, Phillip Carter

• The New Blog

  Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 12:32 PM by Deborah N. Pearlstein
  
  
  
  With many thanks to Phil Carter for putting together Slate 's new contribution to the legal blogosphere, I guess I'll begin by taking Phil up on his offline suggestion, viz. you might want to begin by saying something about who you are and why you're Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, Deborah Pearlstein

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