Weirdly enough, a new challenge to Proposition 209 is underway in federal court. Prop two-oh-what, you say? Yes, Ward Connerly’s hilarious parody “civil rights” initiative of 1996, which prohibited public institutions in California from considering race, sex, and ethnicity EVER (except when they do, constantly), is being called unconstitutional. It’s like some law student was [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Supreme Court'
Better Late Than . . . Once, 14 Years Ago
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Law School, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
Tags: 1990s·affirmative action·Beverly Hills 90210·civil rights·Doritos·ethnicity·Garth Brooks·George Washington·Grutter v. Bollinger·I Love The 90s·John Roberts·Ninth Circuit·Potomac·Proposition 209·race·Ricci·Samuel Alito·sex·Supreme Court·The Coyote·The Road Runner·UCLA·UCLA Law·Ward Connerly
The Sad, Untriumphant Return of Lying to Make Friends
January 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Law School, Politics, Supreme Court
Due to a combination of final papers, holidays, cross-country and cross-state travel, the start of a new semester, and good old-fashioned laziness, Lying to Make Friends has been silent for the past month. That silence has been extended for the past week because all of the top stories in the news, with the exception of [...]
Tags: bone-crushing depression·corporations·crisis of democracy·David Letterman·Haiti·health care·health care reform·John Edwards·laziness·Scott Brown·Supreme Court
Quick, Someone Explain Symbolism to Scalia
October 8th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Supreme Court
During oral arguments in the Salazar v. Buono case (involving the constitutionality of a 5-foot cross in the Mojave National Preserve), Justice Scalia clearly just didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. After Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU explained that the cross symbolizes, you know, something Christian-y, Scalia had this to say: The cross [...]
Tags: ACLU·Antonin Scalia·Christianity·cross·McNaughton·Peter Eliasberg·Salazar v. Buono·symbolism
Tying the Steelers to Supreme Court Nominations
July 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Law and Justice, Sports, Supreme Court
This is pretty ugly, and I fear it’s only going to get worse. From a purely selfish standpoint, as a die-hard Steeler fan and committed bleeding heart, this cannot end well. If Roethlisberger is clearly demonstrated to be guilty, then the Steelers future is ruined and two of the greatest months of my live are [...]
Tags: Ben Roethlisberger·bleeding heartery·Duke lacrosse·Kobe Bryant·Pittsburgh Steelers·sexual assault·Sotomayor
Poor Jonah
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
I feel sorry for Jonah Goldberg, a man caught between two worlds. He wants desperately to be accepted as an intellectual by smart, serious people, yet he also wants to get rich selling books to very stupid people. So he ends up doing things like writing a book where he calls liberals Nazis (using such [...]
Tags: abortion·Ann Coulter·conservative logic·Emily Bazelon·eugenics·Jonah Goldberg·Liberal Fascism·NY Times·Oliver Wendell Holmes·organic food·Rush Limbaugh·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·three generations of imbeciles·weathermen
New Haven’s Firefighter Test (Imagined)
June 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · AS, Arts and Entertainment, Supreme Court
Was I the only one disappointed to discover the Ricci opinion doesn’t include any of the actual promotion test questions that managed to weed out almost all minority candidates from possible promotion to fire lieutenant and captain positions in New Haven? It came out in oral argument that one question asked firefighters whether fire equipment [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen·firefighters·New Haven·racism·Ricci·Supreme Court·white men·yachts
In Less Glamorous Supreme Court News
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
While the headline today is Ricci, where the Court made great strides in quelling the tide of discrimination against white men (it’s a hard knock life for white guys in Connecticut!), I thought I would take a moment to call your attention to a case that barely made the news. On Friday the Court decided [...]
Tags: Confrontation Clause·Evidence·Melendez-Diaz·Paul Bergman·proof·Ricci·Supreme Court·white men
All Roads Lead to Butler
June 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Supreme Court
Despite “The Way You Make Me Feel” and “I Want You Back” being among my favorite songs of all time, I’m starting to think I may be the least interested person in the country in the death of Michael Jackson. But I do feel compelled to mention it to the extent it can be tied [...]
Tags: Butler·John Roberts·Michael Jackson·Monster Bash 2009·obsequious attitudes·The Butler Days Inn·The Incredible Hulk
What if a white guy. . .
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
Fantastic pieces in Slate’s “Supreme Court Breakfast Table” on double standards in the law. I’ve never understood why “double standard” has taken on such a negative connotation. The idea of making distinctions between, say, a race that was enslaved and legally oppressed for centuries and the race that enslaved and oppressed them strikes me as [...]
Tags: bleeding heartery·Slate·Sotomayor·What if Bill O'Reilly were gay?·white men
Bury the rag deep in your face. . .
June 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
. . . for now’s the time for your tears.
Tags: conservative logic·criminal justice·DNA testing·Supreme Court