Well, indeed it isn’t, but it is quite apropos factually, which is sometimes supposed to count in legal matters. Both Mark Joseph Stern at Slate, The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster, and Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy, Supreme Court rules for Trump in Section 3 disqualification case, are…
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Ramesh Ponnuru writes a good column! It’s so good, it’s smarter than he is!
Seriously! Yeah, I know I’ve said a lot of mean things about Ramesh in the past—because, well, not to toot my own horn or anything, but they don’t call me “Mr. Truth” for nothing—but recently he wrote a column, Not even the Supreme Court can make Congress do its job, which, I’m pretty sure, is…
Sandra Day O’Connor, the justice who made Bush v. Gore happen
It’s a bit of a tradition here at Literature R Us to speak ill of the dead, and the newly deceased Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will form no exception to that rule. Sandra was one of the “Infamous Five” who formed the corrupt majority of the infamous case of Bush v. Gore, which…
Shorter Roberts Supreme Court: Let’s Make A Deal!
Originalist sin, anyone? The Volokh Conspiracy’s David Post has the scoop: Case or Controversy Requirement? What Case or Controversy Requirement?. As Dave points out, in a post that is, I would say, “thorough”, two of the many “big” decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded “summer session”—Moore v. Harper, shooting down…
Socio-political notes from all over
God Bless Niall Ferguson! (Pretty much) It’s hard to think of anyone I have trashed so consistently and so contemptuously as Niall Ferguson, whom I once grudgingly praised with a thoroughly uncivil leer as a Thelonious Monk-loving slimeball, while also urging readers not to read his then most recent book, whose title will go unmentioned…
Ilya Shapiro: Sometimes he looks like a martyr, sometimes he looks like a dick.
Well, he does! My Cancel-Culture Nightmare Is Over, writes Ilya in the Wall Street Journal, which, I’ve discovered, lets you read a “limited” number of articles for free, which I find convenient, since I would never support such a nauseatingly right-wing rag financially. Sez Ilya My long public nightmare is over. Tomorrow I assume my…
Will the Dobbs debacle help liberals grow up? Well, yeah! In some universe! Probably!
It stands to reason, doesn’t it? If we live in a “multiverse”, containing an infinite number of universes, then surely there would be one in which liberals would respond “rationally” to Justice Alito’s leaked draft majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, right? Well, probably. It might depend on whether our particular multiverse…
Passive-aggressive hypocrisy hath made its masterpiece: The Volokh Conspiracy’s conspiracy against the rule of law
The Volokh Conspiracy is a website that describes itself as “Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent”. They forgot to add “Frequently Lukidist”. The eponymous founder of said conspiracy is Eugene Volokh. To call Gene’s c.v. “glittering” is probably the understatement of the decade. A bona fide mathematical genius, he…
Yeah, well, that’s why they called her “Notorious”!
Alternate heads: “The Notorious Katie Couric” and “I didn’t even know Donald Trump had a cranky Jewish aunt!”. Yeah, the fairly shocking news that Saint Ruth’s attitude towards blacks was “We made it on our own; why can’t they?” and then sought to “take back” her own banal sentiments—almost like she didn’t believe in freedom…
George F. Will and “Truth”
Time flies when your country is burning down, doesn’t it? The week after Donald Trump’s many fans took him seriously rather than literally—“March peaceably, folks! But stay strong! And save your country from the greatest crime in history! Only you can do it! And don’t take no for an answer!”—Mr. George F. Will, intent on…