In light of the OPR report, it beggars the imagination for Judge Jay Bybee to tell us what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment”, or for Professor John Yoo to teach constitutional law.
Archive for the ‘Constitutional politics’ Category
There’s an easy way to get rid of the filibuster at the beginning of 2011. If the Democrats fail to do it then, then they have no right to complain.
The use of reconciliation to pass health insurance reform would not be cheating, as the threatened “nuclear option” was. But it’s time to get rid of the filibuster altogether, and that could be done by a simple majority at the beginning of the next Congress.
A partial defence of Sen. Conrad: no to coops, yes to regions.
How could the California Supreme Court have overturned Prop 8 yet allowed the voters to ban same-sex marriage through a ballot measure — and done so in a principled way? Here’s how.
The Bush Administration engaged in a a “systemic failure to take seriously the spirit as well as the letter of this country’s commitment” to the law and human rights, and therefore we should not do anything about it.
Mysteries.
Mark says we should prohibit the Big Three from lobbying against the public interest. Sadly, that’s almost certainly unconstitutional. Simply firing the executives, not so much.
Jersey’s election
It’s time to get medieval on the Bush administration. As England’s parliament found out centuries ago, a time of crisis is precisely the right time to demand from the executive as much as you can think of.
