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• Judge Bait

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:26 PM by Emily Bazelon
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: John McCain, Barack Obama, gun control, hillary clinton, '08 election, howard dean, judicial activism, judicial appointments

• McCain's Intemperate and Unfortunate Assessment of the Third Branch

  Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:08 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  John McCain dishonors the federal judiciary raising tired and out-worn complaints about judicial activism that are not borne out by fact. And why isn't Antonin Scalia on his favorite's list? Read More...
  Filed under: John McCain, ACS, Roberts Court, judicial review, Antonin Scalia, Judges, judicial compensation, 2008 election

• Equal Pay Bill

  Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:13 PM by Richard Ford
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: John McCain, equal pay, 2008 election

• McCain for Equal Pay? Um, No.

  Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:08 PM by Emily Bazelon
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: John McCain, '08 election, equal pay

• McCain Sings the Gitmo Blues

  Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:33 PM by Phillip Carter
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: John McCain, torture

• Endorsing Obama

  Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:18 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: Iraq, John McCain, Douglas W. Kmiec, Barack Obama, OLC, 9/11 plotters, speech, Roe, abortion, terrorism, rule of law

• So Where Is Colin Powell?

  Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:55 AM by Doug Kmiec
  
  
  
  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...
  Filed under: George W. Bush, Iraq, Geraldine Ferraro, John McCain, Douglas W. Kmiec, Barack Obama, Dream team, Colin Powell

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