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The hearings over President Bush’s nomination of John Roberts for the U.S. Supreme Court will be important to us as we work to understand how the SCOTUS functions and how members are selected. AP reports Diane Feinstein says she’ll question him over his abortion views.
Meanwhile, as a White House counsel under President Reagan in 1981, he counseled the woman he would replace not to answer such specific questions. More »
Blogger Instapundit links to The Volokh Conspiracy which links to a speech by a member of Britain’s parliament essentially calling on Arabs to fight against non-Arabs now occupying the Middle East in some form or fashion. More »
The editor of Time magazine says the information that almost sent reporter Matthew Cooper to jail wasn’t worth a vow of confidentiality. I think much of what gets it isn’t. More »
This column in the New York Times today gives some good historical background for the Abrams and Schenck cases of 1919 and ties them in with calls to expel radicals from England. More »
This attempt by Britain to regulate violent porn would have a tougher time in the United States under the Miller formulation. It would be hard to ban it in the same way as child porn as the Brits are seeking. More »
San Franciscan Roberto Hernandez won $270,000 after being exposed as a homosexual by a Houston radio station. It’s unclear from this story whether his cause of action was public disclosure of private fact or just emotional distress. Emotional distress is often a secondary claim to other torts that just increases the damages based on the shocking nature of the action. More »
The Da Vinci Code wasn’t my favorite book, but it didn’t repulse me like some people (except for the thankfully short romance scene). But there were parts that made it obvious that it wasn’t a rip-off of some great work.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he will reexamine the FOI policies established under predecessor John Ashcroft. More »
