June 01, 2007
Well, we got that right.
A year and a half ago I opined about Alito with more here. I feel like a tree full of owls after his petty and small-minded opinion in Ledbetter , and what's a blog for if not to preen a little. The holding bids us recall Anatole France's immortal The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as...
January 17, 2006
Judging and personal beliefs
All judges judge by their personal beliefs. Whose beliefs would you expect them to judge by?
January 13, 2006
Cap Flap
I'm not sure I entirely agree with Mark on this. First of all, it's not clear that CAP was particularly "paleo" at the time it was created. It appears just to have been "conservative," with different shades represented. I'd imagine, like other conservative organizations at the time (like National Review), it had a range of folks in it, from genuinely...
January 12, 2006
The CAP flap
Back when open bigotry against women and racial minorities was fashionable, Samuel Alito joined a group that wanted to keep women and minorities out of Princeton. Ten years later, he used that membership to show the paleoconservatives then running the Reagan Administration he was one of them. Now, he'd like to forget it. Democrat's won't let him. McCarthyism? I don't think so.
