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Tag Archives: Supreme Court
The evolution of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on free speech
To claim that Facebook or Disqus “robbed” you of your “First Amendment rights” is a complaint as common in 2014 as remarking on the loneliness of social media, but the preeminence of that amendment in constitutional law and online forums … Continue reading
Secrets and lies: the Supreme Court vs. Mark Tushnet
Jeffrey Toobin has done well for himself writing Supreme Court biographies. The Nine and The Oath, which are not titles for histories of the Masons, explain in workmanlike prose how the justices get on, the process by which they write … Continue reading
Scalia: “It’s not to protest abortion. They want to talk to the women”
Meanwhile at the home of our Least Dangerous Branch, the question of “buffer zones” at Massachusetts abortion clinics got the Anthony Kennedy treatment: But the overall thrust of Kennedy’s questions and comments was that he perceived the Massachusetts law as … Continue reading
“To say that, well, Phil Robertson doesn’t have a First Amendment right to a TV show is only to make half an argument.”
The First Amendment protects citizens from Congressional and state encroachment on their religious and speech liberties. It does protect us from a business or corporation firing us for blah blah, I know, I know. A&E created this reality show “Duck … Continue reading
Scalia: “Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil?”
Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the Supreme Court and gay blade, has an inflated reputation for laffs, which rests in part on how leaden the average SCOTUS opinion is (I spent the weekend with Jean Edward Smith’s John Marshall bio, … Continue reading
A proposition
I wrote the following almost exactly a year ago. Still applies, with minor revisions. I’m no lawyer but have always been interested in the Court as an institution: its history, personalities, decisions. I often get impatient with liberals when they … Continue reading
SCOTUS decision: a “poisoned chalice” for Republicans
As the news comes in that the Supreme Court has declared Section IV of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, Joshua Green sees good news, I suppose, in the next five to ten years: On its face, this looks like a … Continue reading
State/fed tension
Hmm, Students of Windsor and Hollingsworth have always recognized a basic tension between the theories of gay-rights advocates in the cases. The challenge to DOMA is undergirded by a sense that marriage is a matter for state rather than federal … Continue reading
What’s a flagpole?
Compiling the delightful things Antonin Scalia has written or said about homosexuals since Romer v. Evans in 1996, Adam Serwer shows the frivolousness of the justice’s arguments. The most useful advice: homosexuals aren’t trying hard enough to couple with the … Continue reading
Anthony Kennedy Watch
Slate’s Emily Bazelon breaks down the DOMA and Proposition 8 cases that the Supreme Court will hear tomorrow and Wednesday: The California case could be trickier for Kennedy, since it pits a voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, against the … Continue reading
