Underbelly

Writing of Justice Ginsberg's role in the health care decision, I wrote : ...we would need a bit more compelling evidence (which, Go...

I've been traveling and so not in the thick of the health care aftershocks (though they certainly seem strong enough to register on the...

Having read Garrett Epps' bleakly hilarious deconstruction of Justice Alito's dissent-from-the-bench in the juvenile justice case,...

Geopolitics boffins like to draw the distinction between strategy and tactics (maybe strategy, operations  and tactics, but it's a detai...

I'm taking a second look at that Herald Tribune from my natal day , February 18, 1936. And here it is, right before my eyes, one of th...

Jonathan Turley has a shrewd offering up at the Washington Post this morning on Antonin Scalia as a media celebrity . The piece is fine o...

Joel flags me to a gripping piece of Kagania that casts her in as favorable a light as anything I'd seen before. It's witty, acerb...

I hear talk about how the office of Solicitor General is some sort of steppingstone to the Supreme Court. Is it? A desultory Google is inco...

That's Ignoto on Miz Justice Kagan . He says he thought it up and I don't doubt it for a moment but I suppose it is one of those sp...

Well, best wishes to Miz Justice Kagan . I still don't quite get it, but she does sound like an improvement over most of the current l...

I follow the Supreme Court appointment sweepstakes with interest, although I have to admit I don't have a highly developed view on who s...

In the Wall Street Journal , Tom Goldstein explains the White House strategy as it pushes its Supreme Court shortlist: "The process its...

That's an all-round weird piece in this morning's NYT on Justice Souter's supposed "lack of influence" (except, of c...

Critics have heaped a good deal of derision on the President for saying he is looking for a judge empathy, a judge who understands life as t...