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Wasn’t someone impeached a few years ago for perjury? Is that still an operative principle?
Archive for the ‘Law Notes’ Category
October 20th, 2010
Ken Buck can choose: either he admits to violating prosecutor’s ethics rules, or he admits that he thinks date rape isn’t serious.
September 27th, 2010
Category: Constitutional politics, Law Notes
According to Michael Klarman of Harvard. I´m linking to this because (a) it´s a great piece of iconoclasm (b) Balkinization has turned off comments on the post. So open thread. Play nice.
September 20th, 2010
…and it’s a good thing, too!
August 26th, 2010
The Obama Administration sides with polluters in the key climate change case. Maybe Bernie Madoff for head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency?
August 25th, 2010
Category: City of Angels, Constitutional politics, Energy and Environment, Law Notes, Unions and organizing, Watching Conservatives
An impressive group of labor, economic development, and environmental groups is pushing to give more control to states and localities. How many Republicans will support this effort to tame the federal government? Do I have to ask?
August 19th, 2010
Now that the Republicans have blocked climate change legislation, the administration has a change to ratchet up the pressure through litigation.
August 17th, 2010
Category: Gay marriage, Law Notes
Emily Bazelon asks “do we really want gay marriage to become legal in California because of what’s essentially a technicality?” Uh, yes — that’s EXACTLY what we want.
July 30th, 2010
Brad Plumer in The New Republic rightfully celebrates the emergence of the Western Climate Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system among several US states and three of the most important Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. “Cap-and-trade is coming to the United States,” he notes, “and there is nothing that the Senate can do [...]
