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Come November, General Obama is going to look behind him and suddenly realize he doesn’t have an Army.
Archive for the ‘Law Notes’ Category
August 26th, 2010
The Obama Administration sides with polluters in the key climate change case. Maybe Bernie Madoff for head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency?
August 25th, 2010
Category: City of Angels, Constitutional politics, Energy and Environment, Law Notes, Unions and organizing, Watching Conservatives
An impressive group of labor, economic development, and environmental groups is pushing to give more control to states and localities. How many Republicans will support this effort to tame the federal government? Do I have to ask?
August 19th, 2010
Now that the Republicans have blocked climate change legislation, the administration has a change to ratchet up the pressure through litigation.
August 17th, 2010
Category: Gay marriage, Law Notes
Emily Bazelon asks “do we really want gay marriage to become legal in California because of what’s essentially a technicality?” Uh, yes — that’s EXACTLY what we want.
July 30th, 2010
Brad Plumer in The New Republic rightfully celebrates the emergence of the Western Climate Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system among several US states and three of the most important Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. “Cap-and-trade is coming to the United States,” he notes, “and there is nothing that the Senate can do [...]
July 21st, 2010
It’s a little funny to be burned in effigy by the conservative movement before you’ve even woken up in the morning.
July 15th, 2010
The destruction of the Temple was one of the best things ever to happen to the Jewish people.
June 29th, 2010
Category: Law Notes, Libertarianism
How many subsidies will libertarians demand for their favorite bigots?
May 8th, 2010
Category: Constitutional politics, Law Notes
Elena Kagan may not be the greatest scholar in the world — and that may be why President Obama picks her for the Supreme Court.