I could not support more strongly the idea that we need as much diversity as possible on the Supreme Court, and not just along the race/gender/religion/sexual orientation axes that we normally talk about. I understand that it’s difficult to get a cross-section of America on a nine-member body, but any time the president has an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg'
She Is A Real American
May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law School, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
Tags: Bill O'Reilly·Dahlia Lithwick·diversity·Elena Kagan·Ivy League·Kathleen Parker·Paul Waldman·real America·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Supreme Court·Tea Parties·white men
All Apologies
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports
This is a post that could easily be recycled every month or so whenever some famous person sticks his her foot and his or her mouth and then botches his or her apology. (And, given my recent inability to get myself to post more than once every other month, I probably need to write more [...]
Tags: apologies·Bob Marshall·Hannah Storm·Hiking the Appalachian Trail·I'm sorry if you were offended·Jim Bunning·Kate Harding·Kyle Turley·Mark Sanford·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Tiger Woods·Tony Kornheiser
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