The Debate Link

The New York Times gathers a bunch of legal luminaries to reflect on Justice Souter's career and legacy. The Washington Post collects ...

Apropos Mark Halperin's worry that White men don't have sufficient representation on the Supreme Court (currently they hold 7 of 9)...

As cool as it would be if my current Civil Procedure professor became the next Supreme Court Justice (and it would be very, very cool), it ...

Rep. (and retired Admiral) Joe Sestak (D-PA) is refusing to rule out a primary challenge towards Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter (...

The word is that Justice David Souter plans to retire . Let the speculation on his replacement begin! Back in the day, I put my money down o...

But it's more official than normal: University of Chicago's very own Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Profess...

I have a new student-post up at the Faculty Blog on Columbia Professor John Witt's ongoing project , "Lincoln's Code: The Laws ...

I couldn't parody this : BMI and Airbus literally removed Israel from its on-air maps for certain planes intended for Arab destinations....

The Livingstone formulation runs as such: "For too long, any criticism of Israel has been unjustly demonized as anti-Semitism." Wh...

The Uriah Heep John Roberts court looks poised to flash some of that vaunted judicial humility again, by striking down a critical portion ...

CNN headline: Steele: I agree with Rush Limbaugh . No kidding.

I don't really have anything to add, but I did want to note this: Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on the Confederate Flag and its c...

These must be those unreal Americans I've been hearing about. Byron York argues that Obama's "sky-high ratings among African-A...

I just got an interesting email from Columbia Law School: Dear David Schraub: Thank you for your continued interest in Columbia Law School. ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates sarcastically wonders why none of his commenters wrote "THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!!! FOR HILLARY!!!!11" But while i...

My regards and well wishes to the Minnesota 1L who got shot the other night . Apparently I was lucky to get out of the violent deathtrap tha...

Matt Yglesias notes that with the defection of Arlen Specter and the defeat of Norm Coleman, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) is the sole remaining ...

Best intro to a piece covering Arlen Specter's defection goes to WaPo writer Dan Balz : How much more can the Republicans take? Demorali...

The good folks at Engage pointed me to a new paper by CUNY professor (not of law, incidentally) Kenneth Marcus, Jurisprudence of the New An...

Sen. Arlen Specter ( R D-PA) shocks the political world with a party switch . Yes, it might have been his only route for political survival...