Deciding cases, the Sotomayor way
Reviewing the facts and law is so passe. The New Editor explains how it will be done in the Sotomayor era.
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Sotomayor’s good instincts on free speech
Sotomayor’s statements about judges (better if they’re female and minority) and their role (to make policy) have been disturbing. It’s worth nothing though that, as James Taranto points out that, on at least one occasion Sotomayor came out strongly in favor of free speech, even though it was very ugly
Continue readingThe preview of an Obama court
Are you wondering what an Obama court will look like? You don’t need to look very far. If you haven’t yet read Christina Hoff Sommers’ wonderful 1995 book, Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, run out right now and get a copy. Generally speaking, the book is about
Continue readingFisking some of the Sotomayor cheering *UPDATED*
The applause from Sotomayor on the Left is, you’ll pardon me for saying, canned. They know Sotomayor is not a solid judicial candidate, so they’re focusing on the usual race and sex packaging. The excitement isn’t there. This is rote identity politics. A good example is Ruth Marcus’s column applauding
Continue readingCalifornians, guard your children
One of the horrible things about pedophile sex offenders is that, unlike ordinary opportunistic, amoral offenders, they are driven by an overwhelming compulsion. They’re not the smelly old man living in the broken down house. They’re the pre-school teacher, the scout leader, the priest hosting youth groups, and the nice
Continue readingThose logical disconnects
I’m sorry blogging has been so light today, but it’s been a go-go-go kind of day that’s left little time for anything but, well, going. I did have a thought today, which I’ll share with you. Most lawyers I know have little that’s complimentary to say about the average trial
Continue readingDo I see a “to hell with democracy” moment in California’s future? *UPDATED*
A few months ago, the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the California voters and announced that gay marriage was a fundamental right. The voters responded by changing the California Constitution to state that, in California, marriage is between one man and one woman. As you know, if it
Continue readingBang, bang! *UPDATED*
Just in time for July 4th, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says. I personally am not now, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. I keep meaning to go the local firing range and take lessons (operating on
Continue readingWrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Two anecdotes, and then I’ll get to my point (and the anecdotes do relate to that point): Anecdote 1: I get my medical care from Kaiser and feel that I get great care. Within its four walls, Kaiser is an extremely efficiently run organization that takes surprisingly good care of
Continue readingThe madness of the judiciary
The alternative title for this post would have been: You’re in prison, not a hotel. From Best of the Web Today: He Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly Henry Boateng is an inmate in a Massachusetts State prison. He went to court arguing that his rights were being violated. Yesterday, a federal
Continue readingThe Obama/Che connection
No, Obama has not spoken lovingly about mass murderer Che Guevara. However, another prominent Obama supporter has made the two equivalent in a very obvious way: he has displayed in his office side by side posters of Obama (that socialist, artsy-fartsy looking poster) and (who else?) Che. Check out this
Continue readingMarriage is not an individual right
Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right
Continue readingThe changing face of the law
I went to law school in the days when students still took notes by hand. When I started practicing law, secretaries had computers at their desks, but no lawyers did. My first law firm used a “Wang” word processing system, which was really nothing more than a typewriter on the
Continue readingLinks to good discussions of the Calif Supreme Court decision
Cliff Thier talks about the far-reaching implications of the Court’s (and the government’s) “fundamental rights” language. The WSJ’s editors take on the election ramifications of the decision — a bit of unexpected, and undeserved, good luck for Republicans in a terribly managed campaign season. As was to be expected, National
Continue readingHeadlines can be deceiving
Here’s the headline: “Judge admits mistake in kicking whites out of court.” Upon reading that headline, I assumed that this was going to be the familiar story about some crackpot anti-white judge who issued a ruling, a la the Jeremiah White mode of thinking, that blacks can’t get a fair
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