It appears that a 53-year-old Texas man named Joseph A. Stack had some serious and perennial tax troubles and had come to greatly resent the government for pursuing him to pay back taxes (and interest and penalties). If that were the… Continue Reading
Divorced couples use their children as pawns in power plays against one another all the time. It’s despicable. Parents and adults of all sorts also believe that they have a religious duty to indoctrinate children into their weird religions, and… Continue Reading
From Eugene Volokh, I see an interesting and highly questionable piece of legislation pending in Arizona: A. A court shall not use, implement, refer to or incorporate A tenet of any body of religious sectarian law into any decision, finding… Continue Reading
To Nick Gillespie’s three points, I would add a few more: Do you really have any doubt that in the 2008 elections, big corporations didn’t figure out a way to funnel big money to both Presidential candidates? What were 527… Continue Reading
Plenty of people, myself included, got upset when the Bush Administration reserved for itself the right to unilaterally engage in a warrantless wiretap. I thought it was an affront to the Constitution that the President, acting on his authority alone,… Continue Reading
Holy crap, it’s been three days and people are still blogging about Sarah Palin writing notes to herself on her hand while speaking at the Tea Party convention in Nashville on Friday. Seriously. How is that different than if she… Continue Reading
So the word on the street is that the White House is looking for somewhere to have the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed other than lower Manhattan. I think that’s fine. The Constitution requires that the trial take place in… Continue Reading
In an opinion that demonstrates just how astonishingly deferential the “rational basis” standard for governmental actions can be, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has permitted a Wisconsin prison to ban inmates from playing Dungeons and Dragons or possessing any… Continue Reading
A great coup for a trial attorney is to get the other side’s expert to admit that you’re right about the part of your case that he has been called to testify about. David Boies pulled that off today —… Continue Reading
There are relationships out there that may once have been contractual but now I suggest that they are properly viewed, at best, as three-party contracts and more properly ought no longer to be treated as contractual at all. First-year law… Continue Reading