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An interview with Jeffrey Toobin in our monthly “Learn from the Experts” series.
Archive for the ‘Supreme Court’ Category
November 7th, 2011
August 26th, 2011
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Built Environment, Health Care, Higher education, Illinois, Law Notes, NonProfits, Supreme Court, Taxation, Urban policy
When Harold Pollack wrote about the recent Illinois Department of Revenue decision to withdraw property tax exemptions from three hospitals, he naturally focused on the impact of the decision on health care. But those of us who work in other areas of the nonprofit sector are worried by the decision as well-or, if we aren’t, [...]
August 17th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court
Dear Justices, if you plan to damage health reform, please do so openly, leaving your activist fingerprints on the product.
March 10th, 2011
Category: Supreme Court
I have previously criticized Supreme Court Justice Alito in these pages, but I am here to praise him today. Below is the opening of his eloquent and to me persuasive dissent in Snyder v. Phelps. “Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred [...]
September 14th, 2010
Christine O’Donnell’s politics are hilarious: she thinks we should go around telling people masturbation is wrong. Thing is, there’s a Supreme Court justice who’s very angry that we can no longer make it illegal.
July 30th, 2010
Brad Plumer in The New Republic rightfully celebrates the emergence of the Western Climate Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system among several US states and three of the most important Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. “Cap-and-trade is coming to the United States,” he notes, “and there is nothing that the Senate can do [...]
May 9th, 2010
Category: Supreme Court, Torture
She was against them, when Lindsey Graham wanted to shred the Constitution to permit them.
October 7th, 2009
I rarely find myself at a loss for words, but Antonin Scalia has made me so. What is the most apposite term to describe this argument? The question of the meaning of a cross in the context of a war memorial did give rise to one heated exchange, between Justice Scalia and Peter J. Eliasberg, [...]
June 2nd, 2009
Category: Supreme Court
Jonah Goldberg on Sotomayor: just when you thought the debate could sink no further.
