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Triple Mail Bag
14 hours ago
by GorTechie
Minion ScottO writes in with a tuple of questions spread across three Gormogons: Gentlemen and overlords, Your 3 posts inspired questions, so you get a 3-fer email. First, GorTechie: I recognize the idea of Federal laws superseding State, but if "health insurance" (pre-paid medical care coverage) is ...
The Gormogons - gormogons.com · Rank: 31,046 ·  110 references
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Typical White Male on Catholic Birth Control Coverage Brouhaha
19 hours ago
by Average Joe
For a midwestern white male, nothing tends to get me riled up more than the astonishing arrogance of other white men. For example, the White House's decision to mandate religious institutions provide contraception under the Affordable Care Act, and more specifically, how every white Catholic male ha ...
Overdressed Anarchist - overdressedanarchist.com · Rank: 181,934 · 2 references
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American Constitution no longer the model for developing democracies
1 day ago
by Ayanna Nahmias
Reblogged from The Deliberate Observer: Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning. In 1987, on the Constitution’s bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that “of the 170 coun ...
The Nahmias Cipher Report - ayannanahmias.com · Rank: 149,494 · 17 references
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The Debate Over the New Autonomy Statute for Catalonia: Perspectives From ...
1 day ago
by researcher
I last wrote about the new Autonomy Statute for Catalonia from the perspectives of the left, progressive and green parties, all of which favored the revisions to the relationships between Catalonia and the central government. Today I write, with a certain degree of mirth, about the position of the S ...
Web law and advices - weblawandadvices.blogspot.com
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The Ninth Circuit’s Desperate Targeting of Justice Kennedy
1 day ago
by Matthew J. Franck
Perhaps there’s something in the water in California. In the Golden State, the judges seem to be in the grip of logical fallacies. First there was Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, who argued eighteen months ago in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that a right of same-sex marri ...
Public Discourse - thepublicdiscourse.com · Rank: 1,295 · 508 references
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Some Quick Wednesday Hits
2 days ago
by jccaldara
I remarked the other day that Amy Oliver and Michael Sandoval of our Energy Policy Center have been doing some fantastic work lately. Not sure why energy policy doesn’t get as much play as other policy areas but I certainly think energy is sexy. Their latest article scrutinizes the Obama administrat ...
Jon Caldara - joncaldara.com · Rank: 104,970 · 73 references
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New Comparative Constitutional Scholarship on Enforcing Second Generation Rights
3 days ago
by Mark Tushnet
• Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Social and Economic Rights: Harming the Poor Through Social Rights Litigation: Lessons from Brazil, 59 Tex. L.Rev. 1643 (2011). • César Rodriguez-Garavito, Beyond the Courtroom: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America, 89 Tex. L. Rev. 166 ...
Jotwell - jotwell.com · Rank: 165,781 · 35 references
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New Comparative Constitutional Scholarship on Enforcing Second Generation Rights
3 days ago
by Mark Tushnet
• Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Social and Economic Rights: Harming the Poor Through Social Rights Litigation: Lessons from Brazil, 59 Tex. L.Rev. 1643 (2011). • César Rodriguez-Garavito, Beyond the Courtroom: The Impact of Judicial Activism on Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America, 89 Tex. L. Rev. 166 ...
Jotwell - jotwell.com · Rank: 166,737 · 35 references
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Ninth Circuit rules that Prop 8 has no rational basis; Supreme Court review ...
3 days ago
by Nan Hunter
Today's decision from the Ninth Circuit ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause, even under a rational basis test, is terrific. Why do I love it? Let me count the ways. Its narrow rationale gives anti-gay advocates a much smaller target to try to hit. A ...
hunter of justice - hunterforjustice.typepad.com/hunter_of_justice · Rank: 31,187 · 85 references
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