A Stitch in Haste

As the bill slogs its way through Congress, keep in mind that there are two alternative reasons to oppose it.

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…because the government is crafting a new excuse to shred our online privacy rights.

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Long-time readers know that, besides my unsurprising interest in constitutional law and gay rights issues, my first true love in law school was Torts. And I find the reputational torts to be among the most intriguing of all.

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There was a bit of blogospheric buzz over whether "abort" is synonymous with "assassinate" (it's not), but that debate misses the point.

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The schizophrenic holding of Buckley v. Valeo has resulted in over thirty years of litigation.

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Guess who's asking "activist judges" to thwart "the will of the people"!

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First, the video:

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Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum:
"You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?"
Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place.
As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts summed it [...]

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Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post:
Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of the [...]

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(Or: "Bringing Kelo to Copyright?")
Two law professors suggest exactly that:
After vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin finished her big speech at the Republican National Convention, the 1977 song "Barracuda," by the band Heart, blared out over the roar of the crowd. Convention organizers chose the music to highlight Palin's high school basketball-team nickname, "Sarah Barracuda." But [...]

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