First, it's a very good article.  Well worth reading despite its considerable length.  A lot of journalism on legal topics, even by people who have done it for a long time, is unreliable and makes important mistakes.  But I … [Read more...]

Stop me if you've heard this one: Dr. James Dobson, one of the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts and head of "Focus on the Family," compared the "men in white robes," i.e., the Ku Klux Klan, who "did great wrong to civil … [Read more...]

The Village Voice writes this week that Karl Rove is hatching a devilish scheme to thwart Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions by having George W. Bush nominate Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court.  The idea would be that when Chief … [Read more...]

Orin Kerr, a law prof at George Washington University and one of the Volokh conspirators, has pointed to an interesting essay by Amy Cohen (scroll down), a professor at Western New England College School of Law (located in Springfield, … [Read more...]

In an effort to keep you up to date on the important goings-on down in Washington, DC, we are today inaugurating a new weekly feature on Blue Mass. Group: each Friday we will bring to your attention one proposed government regulation for … [Read more...]

The Federal Election Commission, after sending the blogosphere into a tizzy over the possibility of subjecting internet communications to campaign finance law, has released proposed rules that are far more blogger-friendly than had been … [Read more...]

We have reported several times (most recently here) on what we see as the mainstream media's ... well ... stupid approach to the investigation into douchebag of liberty Bob Novak's outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.You'll be pleased to … [Read more...]

This week's New Yorker magazine has a lengthy article about Justice Scalia which is apparently not available online.  The New Yorker's website also has this interview with the author (Margaret Talbot) with some additional commentary.I … [Read more...]

E&P reports that First Amendment bigwig Floyd Abrams, who represents reporters Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper in the Novak-Plame-gate business, has filed a motion for rehearing en banc before the entire eight-judge D.C. Circuit Court … [Read more...]

A California trial court judge has held that California's statutes defining marriage as between a man and a woman are unconstitutional.In addition to finding that the statutes were unconstitutional because they did not serve any rational … [Read more...]