The city’s archaic system of rent regulation may be in need of rethinking, but it is just as well that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a legal challenge to the system. The issue is contentious enough without the distinguished justices getting involved and possibly imposing a top-down solution. Read More
Choosing a Supreme Court justice has become a deplorably dishonest process that hides ideological disputes behind petty and often personal matters. Nominees pretend to have no opinion about controversial issues such as abortion, when everyone listening knows they certainly do. Politicians pretend to worry about nothing except judicial qualifications, temperament and balance.
It is Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it’s going to review the New York case about the constitutionality of the judicial selection process.
(Judicial candidates currently get the endorsement of a major party not by running in primaries, but in judicial conventions. More on the initial case here.)
In addition to making Read More
A state federal court of appeals just upheld Judge Gleeson’s ruling that judicial conventions in New York are unconstitutional because they’re controlled by party bosses. Gleeson’s ruling came out earlier this year, but was set to go into affect next year pending this appeal.
As a reader, who passed on today’s ruling, noted, “the Read More
Whatever else may be said about the august legislators of South Dakota, who have arrogated unto themselves the decision of every woman in that state as to whether to continue a pregnancy, they have accomplished something that could prove important to the entire country. Long before the repercussions reach the U.S. Supreme Court, their law Read More
Whatever else may be said about the august legislators of South Dakota, who have arrogated unto themselves the decision of every woman in that state as to whether to continue a pregnancy, they have accomplished something that could prove important to the entire country. Long before the repercussions reach the U.S. Supreme Court, their law Read More
Russ Feingold, heading into the Gore-space on Hillary’s left, is also making his way onto her New York turf this Sunday with an address on the Patriot Act.
According to the release, the address will be at “Cardoza Law School.”
By which the Judiciary Committee member presumably means Cardozo, which is Read More
Assessing the philosophy, character and fitness of Samuel Alito to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court will require more than eliciting vague and unresponsive answers about whether he will remain faithful to Roe v. Wade, the precedent that protects abortion rights in America. It means that Senators should take the time to closely examine his Read More
Beneath a photo of Judge Samuel Alito in Princeton University’s 1972 yearbook, one line prophesied a rich future for the 22-year-old public-policy major: “Sam intends to go to law school and eventually warm a seat on the Supreme Court.”
Thirty-three years later, it seems, that cheeky line said more about Mr. Alito’s dearest ambitions than Read More
Assessing the philosophy, character and fitness of Samuel Alito to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court will require more than eliciting vague and unresponsive answers about whether he will remain faithful to Roe v. Wade, the precedent that protects abortion rights in America. It means that Senators should take the time to closely examine his Read More
