Tomorrow, there will be three hours of argument in California’s consolidated same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court. As longtime readers know, I don’t see any reason why gay people should not be able to get married and I do… Continue Reading
Someone must have really pissed off wine afficionado Stephen Bainbridge about this ought-to-have-been-obvious point that so often gets dressed up in political rhetoric and trotted out to whore for votes. Money quote (for me, at least): “…the notion that judges… Continue Reading
And in the meantime, there’s what promises to be a thoughtful and insightful interview about how the legal and political issues that underlie the series. I’ll be watching on streaming internet vision.
More discussion of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks from Christopher Hitchens here. Hitchens provides an extreme example of why the public interest should be taken into account when a court decides whether or not to enforce a “parallel” court that… Continue Reading
Seems that my thoughts yesterday about the potential for a U.S. court to enforce Islamic law were shared by Prof. Eugene Volokh. It was, I thought, one of my more thought-provoking finds recently. Prof. Volokh, however, has considerably more research… Continue Reading
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the equivalent of the Pope for the Church of England, says that the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the United Kingdom is “inevitable.” This seems like the best we could hope for… Continue Reading
The FBI wants to collect and amalgamate a variety of biometric data on Americans – not just criminals, but all Americans and a number of non-Americans, too. Seems to me that if the biometric data is given up, either as… Continue Reading
It’s a slogan in our justice system that it’s better that a thousand guilty men walk free than one innocent man go to prison. Somehow, though, a lot of people people don’t seem to actualize that slogan. The media has… Continue Reading
What is it with Presidents named Bush? They like to leave messy foreign policy entanglements for their successors to deal with. The first President Bush left Somalia and Bosnia, and his successor could no more find a clean, politically satisfactory… Continue Reading
So! Mike Huckabee thinks that we need to amend the Constitution to bring it in line with “God’s standards.” By “God,” I presume, he means Jehovah, as opposed to Allah, Ahura Mazda, Baal, Krishna, Odin, Quezacoatl, Tiamat, or Vishnu. Now,… Continue Reading