As you no doubt know by now, the Supreme Court split Monday on the display of the Ten Commandments on government property. It ruled in favor of a display in Texas, and against two in Kentucky. This is roughly what I expected (although I expected O’Connor and not Breyer to be the swing vote). I [...]
Archive for June 27th, 2005
Not The Ruling I Wanted, But I'll Take It
Posted in Church & State on June 27, 2005 | 4 Comments »
It’s old (I didn’t realize that Publius was back to blogging, and I’m catching up), but this post is one of the most brilliant pieces of satire I’ve seen in a long, long time. Man, I wish I could snark like that.
Heh
Posted in Politics on June 27, 2005 | 9 Comments »
Publius on a proposed anti-flag-burning amendment: [TNR Author Ponnuru] I don’t have strong feelings about the amendment. I lean against it: I’d prefer a federal statute stripping the federal courts of jurisdiction over state governments’ bans on flag burning. [Publius] I, by contrast, do have strong feelings about criminalizing political dissent on both the state [...]
OK, Which Is It?
Posted in Iraq on June 27, 2005 | 5 Comments »
Cheney, 31 May 2005: “The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.” Rumsfeld, 27 June 2005: “[The insurgency] could go on for any number of years. … Insurgencies tend to go on five, [...]
Up is Down, Black is White
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on June 27, 2005 | 17 Comments »
And I agree with Thomas, Scalia, Rehnquist, and Xrlq (except of course, in the last case, for the anti-liberal vitriol). Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London that legislatures can use their eminent domain power to take private property away from one private party and give it to another private party on [...]
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