****SCROLL FOR UPDATES**** The Supreme Court just announced a 5-3 decision against the Bush adminstration in the Hamdan case. Right...

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As the Supreme Court gives a virtually complete thumbs-up to the Texas redistricting plan sired by Tom DeLay, some of the reaction has...

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Just to add to the excellent post by Ross Kaminsky earlier, here's a roundup of commentary on the Vermont campaign-finance case (in...

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In a decision released today in the case of Randall et al v. Sorrell et al, a divided Supreme Court invalidated Vermont's strictest-in-the-nation...

Continue Reading Is Free Speech Making a Comeback? - Ross Kaminsky

So I posted yesterday about the SCOTUS’ decision to gut “knock and announce”, and reasoned that it was a bad idea becau...

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Yes people, the cops don’t have to knock and announce anymore when they have a warrant. And to the best of my knowledge, the exclusio...

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…. is to re-argue case law that has been settled for more than 100 years. Well, actually, it’s not so much re-arguing as simply ign...

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As Ronald Cass wrote three weeks ago on RealClearPolitics, expect to hear the call for Justice Scalia to recuse himself to continue as ...

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Looks like I was a bit premature yesterday in declaring "case closed" on gesturegate. Peter Smith, the photographer who snapped t...

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Welcome to Part III of our look at the Boston Herald brouhaha over the allegedly "obscene" gesture made by Justice Scalia (For backst...

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Well, Scalia didn’t recuse himself from this case, and I think he’s right given the fine reporting of Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on Scalia’s previous views on similar...

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