volokh.com - 1/10/2009
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More on Ricci v. DeStefano: Ed Whelan chronicles the apparent machinations by the trial court and Second Circuit to keep Ricci v. DeStefano below the radar (hat tip Powerline ): As I’ve previously detailed (and will in large part repeat here), the Second Circuit’s narrow 7-6 denial of en banc ...
bench.nationalreview.com - 1/10/2009
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Irsquo;m delighted to see that the Supreme Court
granted review today of the Second Circuitrsquo;s panel decision...
in Ricci v. DeStefano.nbsp; In that ... . . .
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Grant of Certiorari in Ricci v. DeStefano
volokh.com - 1/13/2009
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Praise for the New York Times: Over my
years of blogging, I've been highly critical of the...
N.Y. Times's coverage of a variety matters, not least its coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War (e.g.) . I think it's therefore only sporting to acknowledge that I ...
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volokh.com - 1/16/2009
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Some Comments on the FISA Court of Review
Decision: I was on a plane most of the...
day, delaying my promised blogging on the new FISA Court of Review case on foreign intelligence surveillance. Here are a few thoughts after reading the opinion. 1. First, ...
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Clint Eastwood, admitting he voted Republican, said "but Republicans are supposed to be libertarians, aren't they?"
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He said it to Randy Barnett, who's back posting at Volokh Conspiracy — with the comments turned off. Barnett does not detail the circumstance under which he met Eastwood and got the chance to interrogate him about his politics. I'm picturing something along the lines of... ...
Well Played, Mr. Eastwood. You May Get My Ten Bucks Yet!
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... are above reproach. But Clint had lost me with a string of movies that I am pretty much genetically-programmed to hate, starting with Unforgiven and continuing with a string of movies where it seemed to me that he was apologizing for spending so many years playing an ultra-Alpha Male. Gran Torino looks like a reverse of all that, like Clint had hauled out Harry Callahan one last time. That would be very good indeed. I’m even more interested after reading the reviews from Randy Barnett and ...
Rejecting Republicans who Rejected Republican Ideas
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... While Republicans, as Clint Eastwood said, are “supposed to be libertarians,” under George W. Bush, they haven’t been. Maybe if they had, the American people wouldn’t have rejected them. (H/t ...
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