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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments
One of the perks of being a big time blogger (hah) is that sometimes people send me stuff for free. As in a free copy of Zev Chafets’ biography of Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One. Which now occupies a hallowed place on my bookshelf...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2010 9 Comments
The NY Times laments that liberals cannot manage to get a full-throttled liberal nominee on the Court to do battle with Antonin Scalia (emphasis mine): The selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the nation’s 112th justice extends a quarter-century pattern in which Republican...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2009 29 Comments
Sometime early yesterday morning, I received my one millionth visit. Eleven months and two weeks after my first post on October 12, 2008. I hope the first million is the hardest. It has been mostly fun, but not easy. When I started this blog, I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2009 89 Comments
Sarah Palin has kicked off (another) firestorm of criticism because of the statement she released on her Facebook page: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2009 20 Comments
Week-by-week, world event-by-world event, the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton is taking place right before our eyes. Actually, not before our eyes. Hillary has gone missing. There was a time when United States Secretaries of State were front and center in foreign policy making and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2009 8 Comments
In a 5-4 ruling authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the ruling by Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor and two other Court of Appeals judges in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. [Full opinion and analysis below] In Ricci, white...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2009 4 Comments
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” So it is said. We now have reached stage three of the Sotomayor debate, because we are into statistical analysis of her opinions and dissents. First, some backdrop on statistics as relates to Supreme Court nominees. During the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2009 9 Comments
Cass Sunstein has a problem if he wants to get on the Supreme Court. It’s not his intellect or credentials. According to Elena Kagan, also a contender for the high court, “Cass Sunstein is the pre-eminent legal scholar of our time — the most wide-ranging,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2009 6 Comments
Controversy is swirling around the appointment of Yale Law School Professor and Dean Harold Koh to the position of State Department Legal Advisor, essentially the top lawyer at State. Koh is being portrayed as willing to apply Sharia law in some circumstances, as is happening...
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