Court: Woman Can't Say No After Start Of Sex, WBAL (via the_autumn_knewPOSTED: 9:13 am EST October 31, 2006 ( Read more... )

reading dred scott v. sanford makes me want to puke in anger. it's hard to read it dispassionately for the quality or lack thereof of purely legal constitutional argumentation. lots of historical arguments, textual arguments, some structural arguments.

oh yes, and one particularly charming example of a prudential/historic argument:

It cannot be ( Read more... )

We Will Not Be Used

By Mari Matsuda
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Asian American Pacific Islands Law Journal
©1993 Regents of the University of California; Mari Matsuda
Based on an April 1990 address to the Asian Law Caucus, first published February 1993

[source]It is a special honor to address supporters of the Asian Law Caucus. ( Read more... )

"I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death."

-u.s. supreme court justice harry blackmun's dissent in 1994's Callins v. CollinsCHICAGO, Jan. 11 - Gov. George Ryan commuted all Illinois death sentences today to prison terms of life or less, the largest such emptying of death row in history ( Read more... )