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The Iowa Ruling
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Friday, April 03, 2009 [image] The Iowa Ruling [Ramesh Ponnuru] I try to make a succinct case against this type of judicial overreach, over at the Washington Post . 04/03 02:38 PM [image] Share [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — North Korea Says It Will Launch Rocket 'Soon' North Korea says it has completed preparations to send a satellite into orbit and will launch the rocket soon. The country's neighbors and the United States believe Pyongyang is actually planning to use the launch as a test of a long-range ballistic missile. They are closely monitoring North Korea's movements, in case the launch takes place. If fired, the rocket likely will sail over Japanese territory. Tokyo has deployed ...

Vermont And Rod's Giant Sigh
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — I'm struck by the stunned silence on the bloggy right to Vermont's momentous decision to pass marriage equality. The reason, I suspect, is that the anti-gay right has placed a lot of eggs in the judicial activism argument. They felt safest there, on procedural grounds, even if the logic of their position brought them into a very radical originalist jurisprudence that would largely eviscerate the social and cultural landscape of modern America (on race, particularly). Ramesh Ponnuru was spluttering only yesterday that a state court's unanimous interpretation of its own constitution has no democratic or constitutional legitimacy, which is quite a statement when you come to think about it. But having staked out such ground, where does Ponnuru have to go to today? He goes ...

4/8: Norm's Road Gets Tougher
Blogometer — April 08, 2009 4/8: Norm's Road Gets Tougher Now that the counting of improperly rejected absentee ballots has extended Al Franken 's (D) lead over ex-Sen. Norm Coleman (R), liberal bloggers are calling on Coleman to end his legal battle. The netroots are arguing that Coleman has "no good reason" to keep fighting and are warning the GOP that it will do "severe lasting damage" to its future prospects in MN if it prevents the Senate from seating Franken soon. Lefty bloggers are also making a big deal of the fact that a prominent conservative blogger ( Ramesh Ponnuru ) is now calling on Coleman to concede. However, few (if any) conservative bloggers have joined Ponnuru in urging Coleman to give up the fight, although they are clearly pessimistic about his chances. In ...

Originalism on Trial
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, April 08, 2009 [image] Originalism on Trial [Ramesh Ponnuru] The other day I argued against the judicial creation of same-sex marriage. My argument was originalist. The post has drawn some interesting emails. Reader H.K. writes in: You keep talking about what the people of Iowa intended when they put equal protection in their Constitution. I think you're behind on your right-wing talking points. Scalia says we should look to "original meaning," not "original intent." . . . I don't think intention and meaning should be divorced. Look beneath the terminology to the concepts. Scalia's repudiation of "original intent" aims to distinguish his search for the public meaning of a legal provision at the time it was adopted from a search for the subjective intentions of the people who drafted the provision. So, for example, a ...