Bench Memos
Features news, commentary and criticism mainly involving the judiciary and confirmation process.
Author: Bench Memos is a group blog of the National Review Online, with contributors including Case Western Reserve School of Law professor Jonathan Adler (who also contributes to The Volokh Conspiracy), M. Edward Whelan III, who is president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Matthew J. Franck, professor and chairman of political science at Radford University in Virginia.
Blawg Related Categories: Judiciary • Law Professors • Legal News Publication • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Bench Memos
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Wiping Off the Egg
In a follow-up to her front-pager yesterday, Linda Greenhouse reports in the New York Times today that the Justice Department is more than a bit chagr... . . .
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As Though on Cue
The McCain campaign issued this response to Obama#39;s faith-initiative (and, just seemingly, in response to my call earlier today for just such a sta... . . .
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Obama Orders Up Some Faith-Based Charities; Hold ...
Barack Obama#39;s speech in Zanesville, Ohio, yesterday will probably do for him what he designed it to do: attract some more quot;valuesquot; voters ... . . .
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Pennsylvania Judge Deal?
The Legal Intelligencer is reporting that Pennsylvania#39;s two Senators have struck a deal to support a package of judicial nominees from their state... . . .
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Short a Fact or Two
A military reservist who writes a blog on military law notices a factual error in Justice Anthony Kennedy#39;s opinion for the Court in last week#39;s... . . .
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Eighth Circuit Upholds SD Abortion Law
In 2005 South Dakota legislators passed, and Governor Mike Rounds, signed into law, an abortion consent bill.nbsp; The law required a physician perfor... . . .
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Doubling Up on Dionne:
If anything, Ed is too kind to E.J. Dionne#39;s failed effort at Supreme Court commentary.nbsp; I add some thoughts here. . . .
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More Dionne Confusion
In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne Jr. hallucinates about the threat posed by the phantom ldquo;Constitution in Exile movementrdquo;mdas... . . .
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"Judicial Activism"?
I am inclined to agree with Ed Whelan that there is a useful place for the term quot;judicial activismquot; in critical discussions of the Supreme Cou... . . .
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The Presidential Election and the Supreme Court
Robert Barnesrsquo;s review of the Courtrsquo;s term in yesterdayrsquo;s Washington Post correctly observes that the Court ldquo;is sharply divided id... . . .