If they can’t beat you at the ballot box they plan on disenfranchising you through political activists appointed to the courts — partisan plants suckled on illegitimate interpretative maneuvers who will declare it a “substantial impairment of the right to vote” to acquire a photo, then turn around and declare it perfectly acceptable that you be taxed for not carrying health insurance. Until we start demanding that legitimate and duly

I’ve written on this before (in a series of posts about egrets and etc.), but in the NYT today, no less an anti-foundationalist icon than Stanley Fish uses an intentionalist argument to correct the faulty hermeneutical assumptions of texualism — the mode of interpretation pressed by Scalia and Garner’s Reading the Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. One may speculate on Fish’s motives — he perhaps wishes to problematize the

Move over, Bill O’Reilly.  It’s Obama who these days is looking out for you: It’s the kind of thing that would have been all over the news all weekend with a previous president. President Obama was — what else? — campaigning for reelection in a warm, muggy Roanoke, Virginia Friday. He was going on and on, as he seems to do more and more these days. Suddenly, members of the crowd of

Because of the actual fairness!