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14 Jul 2013, 11:17 am
A few thoughts in the wake of Zimmerman verdict (and related matters):1) The New Yorker's Amy Davidson stated last night, "I still don't understand what Trayvon Martin was supposed to do" once he knew he was menaced. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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23 Jun 2013, 1:19 pm
” The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson writes: reading the new documents, which include a secret FISA court order that amounts to a gift certificate for one year of warrant-free spying, it becomes clear that many more “United States persons” have their communications monitored, and on much vaguer grounds, than the Obama Administration has acknowledged. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 11:59 am
But as Amy Davidson of the New Yorker explained yesterday, "targeting" is "a word that has done a good deal of un-obvious work in this story." [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 5:25 am
Writes Amy Davidson in The New Yorker, with the sentimentality that Rockwell haters loathe about Rockwell. [read post]
1 Jun 2013, 6:15 am
Here's Amy Davidson in The New Yorker, quoting some of the best quotes: Erickson had followed up with a blog post saying that “many feminist and emo lefties have their panties in a wad over my statements,” but that it was a biological truth that “kids most likely will do best in households where they have a mom at home nurturing them, while dad is out bringing home the bacon. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 2:00 pm
Amy Davidson at the New Yorker has this story about how the public and the news media treated a Saudi Arabian man thought to be a suspect on the day of the bombings: The bombing could, for all we know, be the work of a Saudi man—or an American or an Icelandic or a person from any nation you can think of. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
Amy Davidson, writing for the New Yorker, noticed how Cruz showed not the slightest embarrassment when called by his Senate colleagues on his sophistry. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 6:15 am
Commentary comes from Amy Davidson at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin at CNN, The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, J. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 7:06 am
Although our own coverage of this week’s pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantánamo already covered the issue in some detail, I couldn’t help but be taken by Amy Davidson’s post on the New Yorker‘s Daily Comment blog on “Red-Light-Gate”–the question of who, other than the presiding judge, has the ability to immediately censor statements made on the record at the 9/11 pre-trial hearings, and what… [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 12:42 pm
” Paul Harris of the Guardian collects the reactions of the anti-drone lobby to the President’s nomination; meanwhile, Amy Davidson in the New Yorker expresses her concerns: What is troubling to many Americans—what Brennan must be asked about in any confirmation hearings—is where this battlefield, this war, and this killing authority begin and end. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 5:06 pm
Writing about recent developments in the case of Bradley Manning (pictured), New Yorker commentator Amy Davidson considers how the charge of aiding the enemy by releasing information to the press has precedent in a Civil War prosecution - - -... [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 2:18 pm
Amy Davidson, What Does Todd Akin Think 'Legitimate Rape' is? [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 12:30 pm
Amy Davidson of the New Yorker interviewed Jose Rodriguez at length about his book that made waves a little while ago, “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 7:28 am
See also: Amy Davidson, New Yorker, among a whole mini-literature of responses. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 5:45 pm
As a matter of fact, I find myself agreeing more with Amy Davidson at “The New Yorker” who thinks the justice deserving of the most praise is “Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hero“ than those asking if the Chief Justice is a “Moderate Hero” or calling him “John Roberts, Liberal Hero. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 7:31 am
” Meanwhile, last weekend’s post by Tom Goldstein on the press coverage of the Court’s announcement of the health care decision has prompted reactions from several Court watchers, including Amy Sullivan at the New Republic, Amy Davidson at the New Yorker, and Eric Wemple at The Washington Post. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 7:35 pm
And online at The New Yorker, Amy Davidson has a blog post titled "Six Lessons from SCOTUSblog (and for Life). [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:43 am
Although strictly speaking, we were on the right track: the Amy Davidson story about Ginsberg's role appears at least on the surface to be outside speculation, not inside dope. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 12:10 pm
As Amy Davidson notes, “stunningly retrogressive” is not the phrase most people are using this morning to describe Roberts’s opinion; he is being celebrated as a moderate, called a disappointment to conservatives. [read post]
