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23 Nov 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Robert Oppenheimer by Kai BirdThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (a bit more technical than the others cited herein) [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 7:43 pm by Schachtman
Barnum, and Donald Duck. 1 With apologies to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and their “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” from which I have borrowed. 2 Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire – A 500-Year History (2017). 3 Daniel Fisher, “A Bale Of Hay And A Block Of Cheese: How Mark Lanier Won $4.7 Billion Talcum Powder Verdict,” Forbes (Oct. 3, 2018). 4 “Factual C [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 11:28 am by msatta
While the Supreme Court didn’t cause that result directly, the lower courts that did cause it could not have done their work without reliance on two factually idiosyncratic opinions issued more than forty years ago. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 4:20 am by Andres
Just another weird meme, like Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker (don’t ask, it’s complicated). [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 7:33 am by Andrew Hamm
As Jeffrey Fisher, who argued for Melendez-Diaz before the court, commented: “So often the court makes decisions based on empirical assumptions, but it’s rare that we have the real world tell us the answer. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 10:51 am by Ilya Somin
” Given its extreme vagueness, I don’t see how that could possibly be the case. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., for the government, countered with the winning argument that war was “a state of things” and “not an act of legislative will. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 4:09 am by Edith Roberts
The Associated Press reports that the justices ruled that “the sentencing guidelines can’t be challenged for being too vague since they only offer a guide to how courts can impose sentences within an acceptable range. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 11:30 pm
If they aren’t complaining, it’s because they’re too busy worrying. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 4:44 am by Edith Roberts
Coverage of the case comes from Richard Wolf in USA Today, who reports that “the decision for the six justices remains a preliminary one: whether the Muslim immigrants’ case should be dismissed outright. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 4:04 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Huffington Post, Cristian Farias also discusses the inconsistent application of the “courtesy fifth,” concluding that as “for the mystery of why one inmate received a courtesy reprieve and another one didn’t, we’ll likely never know. [read post]