Tag Archives: Congress

What I’m Reading — June 28

Posted on 28 June 2011 by

Disorder in the Court — Jeffrey Rosen has this detailed look at how the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are not the monolithic block they’re often perceived to be. Tl;dr: Roberts, Alito, and Scalia are “executive-power conservatives;” Thomas is kind of … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — May 12

Posted on 12 May 2011 by

Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform — Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, has this well-argued piece in the Yale Law Journal’s Pocket Part. … Continue reading →

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Heckuva Job with that Cynical Thinking on Immigration

Posted on 11 May 2011 by

Apparently Lee Hockstader, an editorial writer at the Washington Post, is only concerned about potential immigration legislation in the context of politics — how will it help the Democrats or further ensnare the Republicans in a self-made trap of demagoguery? … Continue reading →

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Libya and Presidential War Powers

Posted on 28 April 2011 by

Last month, when the Western intervention to protect Libya started, there was a fair amount of criticism of the way that the intervention actually started. For instance, James Fallows made some ever-reasonable points about the lack of debate or public consideration … Continue reading →

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First SCOTUS cite of Title 51, U.S. Code

Posted on 15 March 2011 by

Only a few weeks after Congress consolidated the laws dealing with national space programs into the new Title 51 of the U.S. Code, the Supreme Court issued a decision that cites the new section. The case is National Aeronautics and … Continue reading →

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Interesting statistic about Justice Breyer

Posted on 27 February 2011 by

I was curious what has been written about Justice Stephen Breyer’s 2005 book, Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution, which I had mentioned in a previous post about challenges to health care reform. Anyway, I happened upon an article by … Continue reading →

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State of Arizona files counterclaim in S.B. 1070 case

Posted on 16 February 2011 by

Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, has filed a counterclaim in the federal case over the validity of S.B. 1070, the punitive Arizona state immigration bill whose enactment was enjoined last year. Among other things, Brewer and the State of … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — Feb. 8

Posted on 8 February 2011 by

On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail — So says Larry Tribe, the famed constitutional scholar, in the New York Times yesterday. Since the New Deal, the court has consistently held that Congress has broad constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. … Continue reading →

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Say hello to your new Title 51 of the U.S. Code

Posted on 20 December 2010 by

Congress has passed a bill creating a new Title 51 of the United States Code. Currently there are only 50 titles that collect most federal laws currently in effect. The new Title 51 relates to national and commercial space exploration. … Continue reading →

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DREAM Act vote set for tomorrow

Posted on 17 December 2010 by

With the DREAM Act up for a vote in the Senate during a Saturday session tomorrow, I thought I’d highlight this segment from the PBS Newshour earlier this month. What jumped out at me was that Mark Krikorian argued that the … Continue reading →

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