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Last week, I posted a short piece on an article by Neil Lewis in the Columbia Journalism Review, discussing whether the New York Times reporting is hostile to Israel. As I noted, Lewis gets the basic story right–the Times’ isn’t anti-Israel, as such, but its ...
From today’s United States v. Strandlof (10th Cir. Jan. 27, 2012):
As the Supreme Court has observed time and again, false statements of fact do not enjoy constitutional protection, except to the extent necessary to protect more valuable speech. Under this principle, the Stolen Valor Act does not ...
A current meme on drones and targeted killing is that although they might indeed reduce civilian harm and offer greater protection to one’s own force — more precision and discriminating use of force — they are nonetheless bad because they have another effect, viz., that they reduce the ...
If you’re interested in developments in computer crime law, check out Cybercrime Review, a very useful blog on new cases and other developments in the field.
For those of you who might be in and around Philadelphia this coming Tuesday (Jan. 31), I’ll be debating with Justin Hughes of Cardozo Law School at a Temple Law School Federalist Society event about the recently introduced (and even-more-recently withdrawn) copyright legislation (SOPA and PIPA). More ...
I promised to offer today some of the “general lessons” from my new book, Constitutional Cliffhangers. I will divide them into two posts that excerpt and paraphrase the final chapter of the book. This one will deal with the way that law and politics interact ...
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest poll (toplines here) finds that two-thirds of Americans oppose the individual mandate and a clear majority — 54 percent — want the Supreme Court to invalidate the provision. Based on the poll of 1,206 adults, only 17 percent of Americans ...
My final post about my book, Constitutional Cliffhangers, will deal with fixing and preventing constitutional cliffhangers.
One of my pet peeves is when an article identifies a potential constitutional problem and then concludes blithely that the best solution is just to amend the Constitution. Even passing ...
I have had a lot of fun this week blogging about my new book, Constitutional Cliffhangers. I’d like to thank Eugene again for inviting me, and to the readers and commenters, especially for their kind words. This week has been even better than my last ...