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• From the Benches to the Trenches

  Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:34 AM By Phillip Carter
  
  Eric, your last post regarding judges on tanks made me chuckle. In my mind's eye, I pictured one of the judges I know (or maybe Convictions ' own Judge Nancy Gertner ) sitting in the loader's seat of an M1A2 Abrams tank, riding along next to the tank Read More...
  Filed under: Judges, Boumediene, military operations

• "RobertsAlito" Is Not All One Word—The End of Judicial Activism as a Campaign Issue

  Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:55 PM By Doug Kmiec
  
  Judicial Activism is a largely fictitious issue that won't play in the 2008 campaign. The friendly differences of opinion among Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Scalia and Thomas illustrate why not. Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, Roberts Court, mccain, Judges, judicial activism, alito, SCOTUS, civil rights, employment discrimination, ledbetter

• Minority Leader McCain

  Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:36 PM By Doug Kmiec
  
  The prospects for a Justice Clinton, Hillary or Bill, are not great, but should the Democrats sweep up to 12 new seats, the speculation is not other-worldly, except perhaps to the Chief Justice and Justices Alito, Scalia and Thomas. Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, Supreme Court, hillary clinton, Judges, obama mccain

• A Wee Bit Misunderstood

  Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:57 PM By Diane Marie Amann
  
  Adam , I meant neither to endorse "a longtime practitioner" nor to exclude law professors or sitting judges from consideration for court vacancies. Persons holding any of these positions may qualify as "lawyer's lawyers" or, indeed, "judge's judges." Read More...
  Filed under: John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court, Judges, John G. Roberts Jr., Bella Abzug, National Organization for Women, Jeffrey Toobin

• Re: Perhaps a "Lawyer's Lawyer" ...

  Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:34 AM By Adam J. White
  
  Diane, we're in full agreement on the point that the nation would benefit from the appointment of a "lawyer's lawyer" to the Supreme Court . While I can think of a number of federal judges (and even a couple of law professors) who I think would do a fine Read More...
  Filed under: Judges, Roberts, mccain

• Perhaps a "Lawyer's Lawyer" or "Judge's Judge" for the High Court

  Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:26 AM By Diane Marie Amann
  
  It's disappointing that neither presumptive presidential nominee names John Paul Stevens as the type of justice whom he'd like to nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is not to say that Stevens, a Republican appointee, belongs in every pantheon of Read More...
  Filed under: John McCain, Barack Obama, John Paul Stevens, capital punishment, Judges, Charles H. Percy, Gerald R. Ford

• A Guest Post by Robert Weisberg on the Relationship Between "Actvism" and "Federalism"

  Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 11:22 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  Robert Weisberg, of Stanford Law School, offers a guest post: Dahlia Lithwick’s latest column about the California marriage decision shows how the availability of the "activism” trope is more than the intelligence (or other virtues like rationality, sanity, Read More...
  Filed under: Judges, federalism, california gay marriage

• A Tale of Two Courts

  Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:03 AM By Phillip Carter
  
  David Savage writes in today's Los Angeles Times about the deep divide between the Obama and McCain camps over what kind of judges should be appointed to serve on federal courts, including the Supreme Court. Savage boils down the issue to this: Sen. McCain Read More...
  Filed under: Obama, mccain, Judges

• Boy, That Doug Kmiec Is One Smart Cookie

  Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:58 AM By Doug Kmiec
  
  There's more than just agreement between John McCain and Doug Kmiec; McCain and Obama have points of constitutional agreement as well. Exploring that common ground is far preferrable than McCain's giving unrefined insult to federal judges or just taking a swipe at his Democratic opponent for President. Read More...
  Filed under: Roberts Court, mccain, Judges, alito, obama judicial activism

• Questioning Doug Kmiec on the McCain Speech

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:55 PM By Orin Kerr
  
  Doug, I'm interested in learning more about your criticism of Sen. McCain's speech. In particular, I'm curious about the differences between what Sen. McCain said in yesterday's speech and your own well-known criticisms of the federal bench and the Supreme Read More...
  Filed under: mccain, Judges

• McCain Injudiciously Attacks Judges and the Constitution; Dems Wrongly Attack Obama's Ideal

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:44 AM By Doug Kmiec
  
  The media missed the story on the McCain judges speech and the Democrats are bound and determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of Obama's likely nomination victory. Read More...
  Filed under: Douglas W. Kmiec, Roberts Court, mccain, Judges, howard dean, alito

• 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

• Sentence First, Verdict Afterward! The Anatomy of Plea Coercion.

  Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:08 PM By David Feige
  
  Michael Brick’s ambitious piece in today’s New York Times about the wide ranging narcotics prosecutions in the housing projects of Brooklyn omitted some important details which suggest that the “historic conspiracy” referred to in the Brooklyn District Read More...
  Filed under: sentencing, Brookyln, Plea Bargains, Conspiracy, Drugs, Judges, Bail

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