Tune in Tonight for a “Smart” Discussion of Executive Privilege

Update: Stupidly, I failed to note when  it would occur: 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. pacific.  My bad. As you may have heard, the President asser...

PETA Should be Sanctioned For Its Suit Claiming that Orcas are Covered by the Thirteenth Amendment

Strap yourselves in because this is a long one, as I get into some philosophical and moral issues, before I get to the bottom line. So via H...

Why Kennedy Probably Won’t Invalidate Proposition 8—A Response to James Taranto

James Taranto today said that he felt that Kennedy was principled enough that he would invalidate Proposition 8.  I have to disagree. First...

More on the Unconstitutionality of McCain-Fiengold

Why exactly should the law allow this , but not Hillary: The Movie?

The Judge in the Proposition 8 Trial is Gay, and Yes, That is a Problem

Right now in California they are carrying out a trial to determine whether Proposition 8, which changed the Constitution of California to ba...

Freedom of Speech in Mexico

There is an interesting, little known fact about Mexican law.   The AFP explains that: Under Mexican law, permission is required for the us...

Matthew Yglesias Objects to D-Day

What is war from a legal perspective?   What is D-Day, to name one example?   It is thousands upon thousands of agents of the American gover...

The Secret Feminist Purpose of Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment (Updated and Bumped!)

Speaking of apportionment and all that good stuff, there is also good reason to believe that Section Two of the 14th Amendment was designed ...

Excluding Illegal Immigrants from the Census

I have been seeing for the last few months a number of efforts to make sure that illegal immigrants are not counted in the next census.  The...