The Supreme Court today decided the long-awaited affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.  I wrote up some details of the case here. Today, the Court did basically what I predicted it would do: it said that the … [Read more...]

Just in from the Supreme Court: despite a request from Attorney General Martha Coakley to deny review, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to a 2007 Massachusetts law that expanded the previous "floating" buffer … [Read more...]

Just a little Supreme Court footnote here.  Back in January of 2012, the Court decided United States v. Jones, an interesting Fourth Amendment case that posed the question whether attaching a GPS device to a car without the owner's … [Read more...]

This week promises to be a truly blockbuster week in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.  In three hugely contentious areas - affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and voting rights - the Court is expected to issue … [Read more...]

Globe: By a landslide vote of 5,320 to 833—86.5 percent to 13.5 percent—Everett voters endorsed a $1.2 billion gambling resort proposal from Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn, who wants to build on vacant industrial land on the Mystic River … [Read more...]

First, the good news, which is being widely hailed by voting rights groups: today the Supreme Court invalidated Arizona's rule requiring documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.  The Court held that the National Voter … [Read more...]

I think Don Berwick is the first to officially jump into the 2014 MA-Gov race.  And I'm glad he's in: he's very smart, and he knows a lot about health care.  Plus, he was unconfirmable as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (he … [Read more...]

I'd take this with a grain or two of salt, given UNH's track record in recent elections.  Nonetheless, it's hard to be disappointed in the Globe's new poll showing Ed Markey leading Gabriel Gomez 54-41.  The whole poll is available at this … [Read more...]

You may have heard that El Planeta, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in Massachusetts, has endorsed Ed Markey for Senate.  That's a nice get for Markey.  From the endorsement, as translated by Google (for whose accuracy I cannot … [Read more...]

Great story a friend just informed me of. Free pizza today (Saturday) from 2-4pm at Just Crust Pizza at 49 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Just Crust was formed from the ashes of Upper Crust, that poorly and unethically run ponzi scheme … [Read more...]