volokh.com - 12/2/2008
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A Little Short on Specifics, No? The New York Times editorializes in favor of "sound gun-control laws." Which ones? "Reasonable gun-control laws," which can now be enacted following the "gun lobby"'s defeat in November. (No word on the success of the "gay lobby," "abortion lobby," "women's ...
volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Academics and the Obama Administration: The Washington Post
has a front-page article indicating that several Yale Law...
faculty members are among the many academics who think a job in the Obama Administration might be worth seeking: Yale law professor ...
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volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Subsidies Versus Conservation: The Washington Post reports on
what we've known for a while: the combination of...
agriculture subsidies, ethanol subsidies, and high ag prices are causing widespread loss of important migratory waterfowl habitat. Fighting ...
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volokh.com - 11/29/2008
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Gun Policy Debate in West L.A. Between Charles
Blek (of the Brady Campaign) and Me this Coming...
Friday, Dec. 5, 12 noon: The Federalist Society's L.A. Lawyers Chapter and the Libertarian Law Council are putting it on; Judge Kozinski will be moderating. ...
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2. The incentives for future lawyers and agents will be bad. Jack Goldsmith and others have argued that agents have become highly risk-averse, refusing to take actions that promote security because of the fear that the actions, even if lawful, will give rise to legal risk.
Want to know what you get when you put the lawyers and legal second-guessers in charge of anti-terrorism?
You get Indian cops who are afraid to fire on terrorists who are busily gunning down dozens of unarmed victims right in front of ...
ERIC POSNER: “Obama supporters should probably root for Bush to issue pardons. Bush might be just o…
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... ERIC POSNER: “Obama supporters should probably root for Bush to issue pardons. Bush might be just ornery enough to refuse.” ...
Be Ornery, George
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Don’t issue any pardons.
They don’t need pardoning anyway. They didn’t do anything wrong. Make those currently in power face up to that fact. ...
Why President Obama ought not want to prosecute the Bushies
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Eric Posner walks through the many reasons why Barack Obama ought not want to prosecute the Bushies for offenses that might have been committed in the war on terror. Given that Obama will be under tremendous pressure from the left to do exactly that, Posner argues that George W. Bush would be doing Obama a favor by issuing blanket prospective pardons for GWOT-related offenses, but that Bush "might be just ornery enough to refuse." One of Posner's better reasons, at least in the eyes of intellectually honest Democrats who otherwise believe in the rule of law, is that officials ...
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