Surprise, surprise — Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas, plus fellow (but unreliable) Republican Anthony Kennedy, have decided to hand Bush a major victory in his campaign to silence whistleblowers (though the particular case in question had to do with an LA county official, the precedent is one that's sure to make the president very happy [...]
Sometimes I think my criticisms of the conservative mainstream are a little too sour. But then I read something like this and realize I don't go nearly far enough:
Conservatives need to win in the courts, and we have a much better shot at doing so by embracing the living Constitution and other legal approaches [...]
A friend brings to my attention this Slate article by Radley Balko about no-knock police raids and "the most important Supreme Court case you've never heard about." Quick excerpt:
It's impossible to estimate just how many wrong-door raids occur. Police and prosecutors are notoriously inept at keeping track of their own mistakes, and victims of botched [...]
If Thomas, Scalia, and Roberts had had their way, our Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless searches would have diminished earlier this week. This editorial from the Roanoke Times is a little crude, but get the principle right. And this part puts the “conservative” justices’ argument in a nutshell:
The court Wednesday ruled 5-3 that [...]
RNC chief Ken Mehlman seems to be trapped in the closet of 1993. In a piece about the disarray of the Republican agenda — at this point, what can the GOP say beyond “vote for us: better the devil you know!” — the Washington Post quotes Mehlman as saying, “you’re going to have a clear [...]
Joe Sobran makes a good one:
I have no dog, or bitch, in this fight [between Anna and E. Pierce Marshall], and I am trying to be strictly impartial. Marshall has a strong legal case, but his stepmother can pose two commonsense questions, both of which will be hard to rebut: Why do [...]