volokh.com - 10/28/2008
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Can Sen. Stevens Vote for Himself? The Politico raises the question of whether Senator Ted Stevens, now that he is a convicted felon, can vote for his own reelection to the U.S. Senate. Under Alaska law, those convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude are disenfranchised. So, it seems, ...
volokh.com - 10/27/2008
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Cass, Diver, Beermann -- I'd probably assign Chapters
1-6 (617 pp.), omitting the chapters on Enforcement and
Liability, Licensing, and Public Access; and I'd probably do chapters 2 & 3 (on judicial review) last. Rogers, Healy, Krotoszynski -- I'd ...
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volokh.com - 11/3/2008
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McCain and Obama: Stark Contrast on Guns Rights
That's the title for my guest op-ed in this
morning's Denver Post . John McCain disagrees with the NRA (and me) on the gun show issue, and he said so when he spoke at the NRA's annual member meeting this ...
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/24/2008
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The folks at Crooked Timber are having some
fun with right-wing bloggers who say things like this:
Why the crescendo of economic collapse right before the election? Why didn't the media and congress act just as concerned some time ago or wait until ...
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Crooked Timber —
... and so on, that they are advocating the redistribution of wealth? Is it okay for a politician to talk about the redistribution of wealth only so long as you don’t actually use phrases such as “redistribution” or “spreading the wealth,” in which case he suddenly becomes “socialist”? If so, then American political discourse, which I never thought to be especially elevated, is in even a worse state than I thought.
Orin Kerr says much the same.
Today at the Corner Mark Levin is spluttering at the lack of ...
That Tape From 2001
Political Animal —
That Tape From 2001 I spent part of last night trying to find a way to actually listen to the audio of Obama's interview with Chicago Public Radio. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to base my comments on Fox News' transcript , which is the most complete version I could find. It's plainly not a very good transcript -- it seems quite rushed (e.g., it's full of uncorrected spelling mistakes, abbreviations that it seems unlikely that the speakers actually used, etc.) I would normally listen to the audio to check its reliability, but as I said, it was not to be. So take what follows with the appropriate ...
That Tape From 2001
Obsidian Wings —
by hilzoy
I spent part of last night trying to find a way to actually listen to the audio of Obama's interview with Chicago Public Radio. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to base my comments on Fox News' transcript, which is the most complete version I could find. It's plainly not a very ...
10/28: Red Scare
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... ' Kevin Drum : "I see that Drudge is blaring a headline about how Barack Obama believes it's a tragedy that the Supreme Court hasn't confiscated all your money and given it to poor people. Turning on the TV, I see that Fox New is all over it too. So is John McCain . Clearly, the guy's a total socialist. Except, you know, he's not. The whole thing is based on a distinctly academic radio panel Obama was part of seven years ago, and over at the Volokh Conspiracy even conservatives Orin Kerr and ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday declined to embrace the idea of $15 billion more in government aid for the struggling U.S. automobile industry but did not rule it out.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two white supremacist skinheads were arrested in Tennessee over plans to go on a killing spree and eventually shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, court documents showed on Monday.
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