congratulations to the volokh conspiracy on their first emmy nomination.......
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over at the volokh conspiracy with application to heller.......
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weve covered the concept of slapp strategic lawsuit against public participation suits plenty of times before. these are bogus lawsuits filed to try to bully a critic into shutting up. in one such case involving an incredibly broad subpoena against a librarian blogger compiling information on the potential link between mercury and autism a magistrate judge has seriously smacked down the lawyer w...
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weve covered the concept of slapp strategic lawsuit against public participation suits plenty of times before. these are bogus lawsuits filed to try to bully a critic into shutting up. in one such case involving an incredibly broad subpoena against a librarian blogger compiling information on the potential link between mercury and autism a magistrate judge has seriously smacked down the lawyer w...
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weve covered the concept of slapp strategic lawsuit against public participation suits plenty of times before. these are bogus lawsuits filed to try to bully a critic into shutting up. in one such case involving an incredibly broad subpoena against a librarian blogger compiling information on the potential link between mercury and autism a magistrate judge has seriously smacked down the lawyer w...
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...otball and baseball facilities. on the latter issue she actually allowed the testimony of novelist sherman alexie who talked about how sad he and others would be to see the team move away. sources volokh.com blog.oregonlive.com www.theolympian.com www.clubsonics.com arianacn.blogspot.com integrateit.kylewelsh.com......
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dale carpenter takes on a rather odd notion that technology will make heller obsolete. i think it is correct to note that the second amendment isnt limited merely to firearms technology but to many things as well.a in fact i think the door is open for a second amendment challenge to many state and local laws that regulate or prohibit the carrying or possession of lessthanlethal weapons. i am also ...
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whats going on at the supreme court last weekend after handing down the last opinions of october term 2008 two of the justices had law clerk reunions at one first street. justice ruth bader ginsburg hosted a tea for her clerks on sunday afternoon. perfectly lovely and civilized and just what one would expect from a justice with a white frilly thing sprouting from her neck. justice anthony m. ken...
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it is too a word. how could it not be in the oed thats a mystery.......
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any sa readersacare to weigh in on this one......
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sex workers in sydney australia are preparing for a surge in business when the pope comes to town for world catholic youth day. wait. what good post by ilya somin at the volokh conspiracy. why dont conservatives who complain about absent black fathers do something about the drug war will california legalize all marijuana use man. if that passes we may see a full scale federal invasion of th...
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when cedric bradshaw was released from prison after serving a sentence for statutory rape he moved in with his sister. because she lived near a recreation center bradshaw a registered sex offender was forced to move. he moved in with his aunt. but his aunt lived within 1000 feet of a church so he had to move once again. a friend of a friend offered him a bedroom in a trailer so he reregistered. bu...
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from deciusmore evidence that sex offender hysteria motivates corrupt legislators to produce policy that is fucking stupid. the facts are pretty darned sad. barely more than a child himself at 19 bradshaw was charged with statutory rape for having sex with a 15yearold girl. fine. thats punishable. id prefer it had been kept out of the criminal justice system see here for more but its punishable. h...
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good morning. a conservative suggestion of ssm critiqued. a 2axis graph of politicalsocial conservativeliberal demographics of the 48 continentalcontiguous states. change and chesterton. the much abused often unjustly pharisees and the gospels a series continues. le tour begins saturday. a look back at the 1968 edition for a little history. salvation and atonement from the eastern perspective. ht...
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more evidence that sex offender hysteria motivates corrupt legislators to produce policy that is fucking stupid. the facts are pretty darned sad. barely more than a child himself at 19 bradshaw was charged with statutory rape for having sex with a 15yearold girl. fine. thats punishable. id prefer it had been kept out of the criminal justice system see here for more but its punishable. he gets 5 ye...
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every year the independence institute which dave kopel is research director of throws an alcohol tobacco and firearms party not in that order.a here are the pictures from 2008 held this past saturday june 28th.a i will say i am impressed by a second amendment scholar with such a wide collection of marksmanship badges.......
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billionaire money manager jeffrey epstein no stranger to these pages pleads guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls. dealbreaker bar exam candidates stressed out by the big test but not up for a therapeutic orgy watch a documentary about the bar exam experience instead. prettier than napoleon amber taylor via volokh conspiracy ilya somin senators david vitter and larry craig defe...
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kathryn jean lopez editor of the national review online says about the dojs practice of using political credentials in civil service hiring decisionsthe outrage of course is it was only two years ... funny i thought the outrage was that this behavior was illegal under the csra and applicable department regulations. orin over at the volokh agrees the basic picture is just disgraceful. but todd z...
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jonathan adler has a little dose of reality for us asking is this still a conservative court more......
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illinoisans may have a governor with dim respect for the state constitution but hey why should the states be more constitutional than the nation and less concern for blatant corruption but at least its got some mayors who dont think its worth fighting the supremes. sorry that would be the supreme court. ahem. anyway some poetic justice has morton grove likely to be one of the first local handgu...
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jim lindgren believes that a post by carl bogus on the dc handgun ban is uninformed. bogus wrote a careful study that compared the nine year period before the ban was enacted with the nine years following enactment and then compared what happened in d.c. with the immediately surrounding areas in maryland and virginia found that the handgun ban reduced gunrelated homicides by 25 and gunrela...
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todd zywicki points us to a dr. seussinspired set of posts on academic wishfulfillment fantasies. theres some pretty good stuff here both in terms of diagnosis of current problems and aspirations for those of us engaged in the culture of academia. one that leaps out to me is zywickis concern with corporatization much of the leadership of higher education today has lost its way through a creeping...
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randy barnett has discusses some thoughts.a by this standard he proposes governments must allow some form of carrying a firearm for selfdefense.a they may be able to regulate and license certain manners of carrying a firearm but there must be some means to allow for the right to happen. i look forward to one day carrying a firearm down the streets of new york city should this come to pass.a i thin...
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with the caveat that ive not read the full text of the scotus opinion on heller but am relying on summaries and articles about it i will say that i agree that there is nothing in the second amendment that would indicate its protection of the right to bear arms should be narrowly limited to militias. but i understand that it is an issue that has been debated for decades and that the closeness of t...
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to a layman a key element in any definitive explication of the right to bear arms is perhaps this what to make of the preamble about the wellregulated militia the majority opinion in the ruling of the supreme court today by justice scalia got to the point at page 4. antonin scalia cited copeman v. gallant an english case from 1716 which stated that the preamble could not be used to restrict the e...
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