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.
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Recent Posts from Bench Memos
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Indeterminacy
The basic concept which lies at the heart of my point about Congress, courts and the Fourteenth Amendment is indeterminacy. Consider as examples some ... . . .
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Still More on the Courts and Equal Protection
Professor Bradley, I think your last post nicely illuminates our disagreement, but Irsquo;m having trouble seeing the grounds for the asymmetry that y... . . .
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Ambassador Kmiec
Well, Douglas Kmiec won't get a judicial nomination in return for supporting Barack Obama, but he is going to become the Ambassador to Malta. . . .
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More on EPC and the Courts
Anthony supplies some needed balance and context to the remarks I posted yesterday. I surely agree with him that, from my remarks, it does not follow ... . . .
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Re: EPC and the Courts
Professor Bradley, your input is very welcome. I donrsquo;t think the historical record is so clear that the ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment wan... . . .
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Public Support for Sotomayor Falls After Supreme ...
Thatrsquo;s the headline from Rasmussen Reports on its analysis of its latest survey of public opinion on the Sotomayor nomination.nbsp; Even more str... . . .
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EPC and Colorblindness
To the very useful exchange in progress between Anthony and Ramesh I would add an invitation to anyone who considers the question to un-learn their co... . . .
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Re: Judge Sotomayors Misreliance on Foreign and ...
Two weeks ago, I discussed Judge Sotomayorrsquo;s terribly muddled April 2009 speech in which she offers a blanket defense of freewheeling resort to f... . . .
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The Judicial Power in a Fallen World
Ramesh, Irsquo;m open to taking into account the background assumptions of the framers concerning the scope of the judicial power. I donrsquo;t think ... . . .
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Playing the Quota Game
In her notorious 2001 Berkeley speech titled ldquo;A Latina Judgersquo;s Voice,rdquo; Judge Sotomayor discussed what she called ldquo;Latino represent... . . .