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Analysis and Commentary

Kagan Shows Process Trumps Qualifications

with David Davenportvia townhall.com
Monday, June 28, 2010

Washington, we’ve got a problem. Does anyone really think a young law school administrator, with little courtroom and no judicial experience, is the best possible candidate for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court...

Analysis and Commentary

What Counts as Abetting Terrorists? Speech vs. Other Support

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Monday, June 21, 2010

On most foreign affairs issues I would admit to having hawkish sentiments. But on the question of individual rights against the government, my libertarian instincts cut in the opposite direction...

In the News

Racism, Civil Rights and Libertarianism

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Real Clear Politics
Friday, June 11, 2010

Thanks to Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky and son of maverick libertarian Republican Ron Paul, we find ourselves in an unlikely debate about the Civil Rights Act of 1964...

Analysis and Commentary

David Souter's Whitewashing Of Jim Crow

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes.com
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

How a commitment to limited government could have lessened the impact of segregation...

In the News

Ninja bureaucrats on the loose

with Edwin Meese IIIvia Washington Times
Monday, June 7, 2010

On its face, this federal government habit of overcriminalization, without regard to the intent of the perpetrator, is a serious threat to civil liberties. When combined with gun-toting bureaucrats on search-and-seizure power trips, it's also a threat to limb and life...

In the News

Stanford’s Take on Kagan

with Michael McConnellvia Stanford Review
Friday, June 4, 2010

As she awaits her confirmation, there is a multitude of opinions about [Elena Kagan] going about among intellectual communities, and Stanford is no exception...

In the News

U. of C. law faculty didn't back Kagan

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Chicago Tribune
Sunday, May 30, 2010

No job offer when she sought return after Clinton duty...

Analysis and Commentary

The Court’s Power Grab

by Thomas Sowellvia National Review
Thursday, May 20, 2010

In Graham v. Florida, the Court overstepped its bounds...

Analysis and Commentary

Terrorism And Citizenship

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Untangling the constitutional web around al-Awlaki and Shahzad...

Analysis and Commentary

Pat Buchanan's identity politics?

by Robert Zelnickvia Arena (Politico)
Monday, May 17, 2010

I must confess a utter lack of surprise upon hearing of Buchanan's latest slap at the political influence of Jews, chiding the nomination of Elena Kagan on the grounds that she would, if confirmed, become the third Jew on a 9-Justice Court..."

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