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8 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, congratulated a Korean American judicial nominee for the “hard work ethic” of “you and your people,” invoking a stereotype about Asian Americans. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
King Charles’ plan was to create firebreaks by demolition, which was the main firefighting technique of the time. [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 5:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
As a result of the federal increase, a pack-a-day smoker in New York state making $15,000 a year will pay almost 20 percent of his income in taxes on tobacco consumption. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Morelli stated that before Riccio hung up, he said: "you're going to find out how many ways I can hurt you, now pack your bags. [read post]
21 May 2021, 3:24 am by Neil Wilkof
Charles Dickens ushered in the age of the serialization of literary contents in the 1830’s, publishing all his novels via that distribution format. [read post]
5 May 2021, 7:06 am by Abby Lemert, Eleanor Runde
Intel, America’s leading chip maker, is 1.5 “generations” (levels of chip advancement, measured by packing the same number of transistors onto a smaller and smaller chip) behind TSMC. [read post]
4 May 2021, 9:46 am by INFORRM
Packing the Panels This, at least, is how the system has generally worked up until recently, even after the Commissioner’s role was greatly reduced post-Grimstone. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 4:30 am by James Romoser
(Steve Vladeck, Slate) The Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ Is Looking Increasingly Shady (Charles Pierce, Esquire) The Roberts Court, First Amendment Fanaticism, and the Myth of Originalism (Eric Segall, Dorf on Law) Why the Left Is Wrong to Attack Justice Breyer on Court-Packing (Adam Carrington, The American Spectator) Talk of Breyer retirement swirls, while he questions court’s image ($) (Daniel Cotter, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin) The post The morning… [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 6:51 am by Kevin Kaufman
The governor’s bill would result in a net tax cut of $185 million a year, but that represents about $477 million in tax cuts for individuals and a $292 million tax increase for businesses.[3] In broad outlines, the governor proposes to reduce wage income taxes dramatically by raising the sales tax rate, expanding the sales tax base to business purchases, implementing a luxury tax, substantially raising excise taxes, and hiking severance taxes.[4] Specifically, the plan includes: An… [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Trump’s Presidency Recedes into History, Scholars Seek to Understand His Reign – and What It Says About American Democracy MSN – David Nakamura (Washington Post) | Published: 1/18/2021 President Trump’s four years in office ended after a reign defined by constant chaos, corruption, and scandal, a tenure that numerous scholars predict is destined to rank him among America’s worst presidents. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 7:05 pm by Ilya Somin
With the exception of Charles Fried, I cannot think of any even remotely prominent conservative (or libertarian) legal scholars who supports court-packing. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 4:59 am by David Oscar Markus
That said, here's an interesting essay from Charles Fried about why Biden should do it if SCOTUS goes too far. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Shulman (Boston University) on how "Court-packing — and other radical constitutional reforms — might save America"; Daniel S. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 8:57 pm by Ilya Somin
For example, as the work of  Charles Plott and Kathryn Zeiler indicates, the "endowment effect" (supposedly irrational preference for things you already own over assets of similar value that you might acquire in the future) is actually mostly a combination of flaws in experimental design and largely rational reasons for preferring the bird in hand over one in the bush, in some circumstances. [read post]