…to a question that the opinion interprets a federal statute and that corporate-structure/corporate-veil statutes are state statutes. The opinion doesn’t alter those state statutes. But it does, I would think,…

…statute, Hasen has written extensively about a 2004 Supreme Court opinion, Purcell v. Gonzalez, which holds that states are not entitled to make significant changes to voter-registration or poll access…

…plans. Rather than doing as he proposes, trying to “discern the objective ‘purpose’ of a statute‘”, he seeks to deny the statute’s obvious purpose by determining the “purpose” of a…

…and a rewriting by the Supreme Court’s Conservative Legal Movement crowd of an already-awful 1996 jurisdictional statute to effectively repeal the Constitution’s habeas corpus provision’s applicability (via the Fourteenth Amendment)…

…Governors is tasked with setting postal policy within the constraints spelled out in Title 39. Section 101 of that statute lays out the basic mission of the Postal Service. Some…

…interpreting the statute, but, under the severability question, where — we ask ourselves whether Congress would want the rest of the law to survive if an unconstitutional provision were severed….

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

by Linda Beale The Tea Party’s Disruptive Anti-Government (and anti-tax) Politics The New York Times ran an interesting piece by Kim Messick on the Tea Party’s psyche yesterday: Messick, The…

That our new Sec. of State tried to bury the estimate that major world terrorist attacks tripled in 2004 is not news to the blog world. But now MSNBC is…

Initially reported as 22 dead and maybe 50 wounded by a single white US terrorist in Lewiston, Maine. No reasoning for it. Maybe mental illness. When does reality come to…