UPDATE On Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. And How It Could Impact...
Last Wednesday, the day after oral argument at the Supreme Court in a case called Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, both Linda and I posted about the case. Linda’s post I believe was written shortly...
View ArticleShowtime At The Supreme Court
Dan emailed me several days ago asking whether I thought I should write a preshow (my word, not his) post about next week’s marathon Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare,...
View ArticleMy ACA-Individual-Mandate Analysis Summed Up In Three Paragraphs**
As AB readers know, I’ve written quite a number of in-depth posts on the ACA litigation—on the individual-mandate provision and on other issues as well. (The number, by my count, is at least 11,**...
View Article‘Jurisdiction’
To the general public, all that matters are the headlines, reflecting the bottom line. The universal consensus among reporters who attended the 90-minute Supreme Court argument yesterday on whether an...
View ArticleObama Finally Follows My Advice. Here’s One More Suggestion.
Okay, okay. I know that Obama doesn’t read AB. So I know that his decision, reflected in his speech today at a lunch with Associated Press editors and reporters, to finally—finally—start refuting the...
View ArticleThe Laugher Curve: Romney Etch-A-Sketch Aide Says Romney Thought TARP...
Okay. The subtitle of this post is a loose paraphrase of statements that Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom made to ABC News on Thursday. But not all that loose a paraphrase. It’s actually a direct...
View ArticleBait and Switch: Is Pope Benedict Really Against Raising Taxes On the Wealthy...
(Reuters) – Invoking Pope Benedict, Republican Representative Paul Ryan defended his budget plan on Thursday at Georgetown University, where a group of the Jesuit institution’s faculty has accused him...
View ArticleReading articles on federal circuit courts…can a layman follow?
When I forwarded this link to Beverly Mann I was interested in following the current thread on civil rights, the legalities of state use of torture, the continuation in the NDAA exclusion of the...
View ArticleEh. I’ve changed my mind. [UPDATED, twice!]
I want to remove the post I posted this afternoon called “Harry Reid Throws Down the Gauntlet In Front of … Obama. Hurray.” I think Reid has done exactly that, and I think he’ll play a much larger...
View ArticlePaul Krugman, Angry Bear, and Jazzbumpa
Update: Noahpinion takes on the same in How to win arguments by pretending to be stupid. The comments section offers other points of view. Ron T. aka Jazzbumpa received an unusual thank you from Paul...
View ArticleSupreme court justice conduct and conflict of interests
I sent this Salon article on the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas The bigger Clarence Thomas scandal by Ben Adler to Beverly Mann asking her what she thought of the article. The article discusses...
View ArticleA Scalia Tea Leaf on the Healthcare Law?
by Beverly Mannfrom The Annarborist A Scalia Tea Leaf on the Healthcare Law? Judicial decisions, like the Constitution itself, are nothing more than “parchment barriers,” 5 Writings of James Madison...
View ArticleDoes the Tea Party Dislike Goodwin Liu?
by Beverly Mann Does the Tea Party Dislike Goodwin Liu? Politico had an article last week called “Will Senate ever vote on Liu?” Liu is Goodwin Liu, a prominent liberal Constitutional Law professor at...
View ArticleWe trust that AT&T will not take it personally
Part of an e-mail from Beverly Mann on additional expansion of corporate personhood concept at the Supreme Court: I agree that, as the article at Raw Story says, the decision is a striking contrast to...
View ArticleOp-ed: Political Opportunity (Not)
op-ed by Beverly Mann Political Opportunity (Not) The link at the end of Steve Roth’s post yesterday, “American Exceptionalism #238: Opportunity (Not),” is to a post on Sunday by Paul Krugman on his...
View ArticleThe New York Times confirms that Bain Capital really, really REALLY did not...
According to an article in today’s New York Times, Bain Capital was asked to do so, but declined. Well, actually it was asked to help GM out, and declined. The article recounts much of the controversy...
View ArticleStolen Valor and the First Amendment*
You don’t have to be a conservative who’s helped coopt the American flag as a rightwing Republican political symbol—replacing the Elephant, which no one under the age of 50 even recognizes anymore as...
View ArticleWhy Romney Doesn’t Want A Canadian National Healthcare ID Card
Romney’s best line of the day was unscripted. A stray Canadian had driven from Ontario to ask Romney a question and in the process joked that Romney could not have his ID card for Canada’s national...
View Article… And Whom Would President Romney Pay Off? Do Tell!
Car sales “are growing so fast that Detroit can barely keep up,” according to an AP report published this evening bearing a Detroit dateline. “Three years after the U.S. auto industry nearly...
View ArticleTwenty-Six Republican State Attorneys General v. W. Mitt Romney (subtitle:...
Okay, folks. The title of this post is not really also the title of a lawsuit. Not formally, anyway. But it could suffice as the title for the final hour of the six hours of oral argument in the...
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