(Kenneth Anderson)
These days the defense of the products and output of the humanities – literature, criticism, the academic study of the arts and letters, etc. – is not an easy task. At least it is not an easy task if one’s position is doubly, or even triply-conditioned: First, a defense would have to be of [...]
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(Kenneth Anderson)
With sadness I report the closure of one of the world’s great stand-alone book reviews, the Revista de Libros de la Fundacion Caja Madrid. For the past twenty years, it has served as the leading literary review in the Spanish-speaking world – edited in Spain, and possessed of a genuinely global grasp of intellectual [...]
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(Jonathan H. Adler)
Indiana Secretary of State Charles White was convicted of voter fraud, among other charges, this week for lying about this address on voter registration forms and voting in the wrong precinct. White apparently continued to use his ex-wife’s address for his voter registration after they split, in part, because he didn’t want [...]
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The Court is on winter recess until the Justices reconvene for the Conference of February 17. Our “Petitions to watch” for that Conference is here.
The February sitting begins February 21.
In association with Bloomberg Law
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The Seventh Circuit ruled last week in Brown v. Bowman that a bar applicant’s claim in federal district court for constitutional violations in his bar application and appeal process was barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. (The Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevents lower…
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
(Jonathan H. Adler)
There’s much speculation and debate over whether non-citizens and others who are ineligible vote in U.S. elections, but relatively few documented instances. That makes this report by a local television station in Fort Myers, Florida all the more significant. The station’s investigation uncovered nearly one hundred non-citizens who were registered to vote, and several [...]
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
(Eugene Volokh)
Liberty Counsel points to these these excerpts of an interview with Justice Ginsburg on Egyptian television, and argues:
In a recent interview with Egyptian television, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg insulted the U.S. Constitution and advised Egypt to look somewhere else when drafting its own constitution. Justice Ginsburg was asked to give insight [...]
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
(Eugene Volokh)
I’m on the run now, so can’t analyze it in detail, but I thought I’d pass it along: Gonzalez v. City of West Milwaukee (7th Cir. Feb. 2, 2012). Thanks to John Tuffnell for the pointer.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
(Kenneth Anderson)
Philip Bobbitt is an old and dear friend, and I was privileged to meet his bride, the marvelous Maya Ondalikoglu, at a dinner in California last month. This Above the Law story on the romance and wedding is not a gossip piece. Professor Bobbitt agreed to be interviewed for the story, and it’s a quite [...]
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
(Eugene Volokh)
An interesting opinion in United States v. Stone (E.D. Mich. Jan. 30, 2012); this isn’t my field, so I can’t opine on it with confidence, but the decision strikes me as likely right. Here’s an excerpt:
On November 30, 2011, the Government notified Defendants that it intended to call an “Academic Expert,” Professor Michael [...]
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