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18 Dec 2011, 9:36 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Beth Thornburg and James E. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 9:14 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) [UPDATE: I’m pleased to report, with thanks to commenter alkali that these bills were introduced through a Massachusetts quirk that allows any citizen to submit a bill for the legislature to consider. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 4:22 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s the Constitutional Progressives’ “Whole Constitution Pledge” that various liberal groups are asking people to sign:The Whole Constitution PledgeThrough the Constitution, “We the People” created the most enduring government charter in world history.Building on the achievements of the Founding generation, successive generations of Americans have created a “more perfect union” through constitutional… [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 3:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Hindustan Times (Dec. 24, 2011) reports: A Delhi Court on Saturday ordered 22 social networking sites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, to remove all “anti-religious” or “anti-social” contents in the next one-and-a-half-month[s] .... [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 8:48 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Spiegel Online reports:European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier is considering a move to ban [bond ratings] agencies from publishing outlook reports on EU countries entangled in a crisis, according to a report in Thursday’s issue of the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.In an internal draft of a reform to an EU law applying to ratings agencies obtained by the paper, Barnier proposes providing the new EU securities authority, the European… [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 1:26 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) 1789: The states ratify the U.S. [read post]
11 May 2010, 12:16 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Derek Muller writes, apropos the ABA’s coming evaluation of Elena Kagan: Not that a rating 11 years ago carries very much weight today, or that the ABA ratings mean very much at all[:] The first time ’round, back in 1999, a “substantial majority” of the ABA found Kagan “qualified,” and a minority found her “well qualified. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 7:54 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I just got an e-flyer for Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims, by Stephen Sheehi — “Preface by Mumia Abu Jamal, Foreword by Ward Churchill. [read post]
14 May 2010, 10:27 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) No, really (or so it seems to me). [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) UPDATE: Whoops, I see that Orin beat me to this; I’ve closed comments and put the original post below the jump, but Orin’s post is the one you should be reading on this. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 2:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter on the breach of promise to marry thread raised the perennial question: When an engagement is broken, does the bride have a legal duty to return the engagement ring to the groom? [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 8:32 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Nation (Pakistan) reports:The Senate Friday severely condemned the hosting of a gay pride ceremony by US embassy in Pakistan last month and sent the matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs for taking any possible action.The committee will see whether the parliament had the jurisdiction to debate the issue in any of its houses and what kind of action could be initiated against the organisers of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT)… [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 4:32 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) So reports the Boston Herald:The Bay State’s liberal governor yesterday morphed into a tough-on-crime high sheriff who axed the state’s parole board, installed a hard-line prosecutor as the new executive director and vowed to file a tough anti-felons bill ....Patrick, who opposes the death penalty and pushed to limit public access to criminal records laws during his first term, made the sweeping changes in the wake of an investigation of the parole… [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 7:37 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) My friend Fred Bernstein has a New York Times op-ed criticizing constituent services; I’m not sure what the right answer is here, but I think his argument is much worth reading. [read post]