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The White House and the unions seem to have a deal. This was the last big hurdle to finding a bill that could get 218 votes in the House, as provided in the Constitution, and 60 votes in the Senate, as not provided in the Constitution Now if the Mass. Senate election doesn’t blow it [...]
Archive for January, 2010
January 14th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Terrorism and its control
David Frum asks: If dynamic concentration is good for criminals, why not for terrorists? Ans. Because there was no squeegee-artist or turnstile-jumper collective trying to outwit the police.
January 13th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The more I think about the (purely judge-made and policy-driven) doctrine of prosecutorial immunity, the less I like it. The underlying idea is that making prosecutors vulnerable to lawsuits for cheating in the courtroom would make them less vigorous prosecutors. Of course, when they’re cheating, reduced vigor is exactly what you want. But when they’re [...]
January 13th, 2010
The state may discriminate against you if you are gay, but if that makes you sufficiently depressed, it must allow you to drown your sorrows with some really good weed.
January 13th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Can the fanaticism of an abortion opponent entitle him to be convicted of manslaughter rather than murder when he kills an abortion provider in cold blood? A Kansas judge says “maybe.”
January 12th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
Should prosecutors who frame innocent people be immune from civil liability?
January 12th, 2010
Whatever Manzi thinks, Europe does not stop at the Urals,.