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I Wonder What John Yoo Thinks of All This

by Beverly Mann I Wonder What John Yoo Thinks of All This Most of you, I’m sure, know of the controversy concerning Freedom of Information requests by Wisconsin Republican officials to University of Wisconsin professor history and environmental studies professor William Cronon, in retaliation for certain postings on his new blog and for a New […]

Justice Kennedy’s Hard-Right Turn After (and Because of?) Citizens United

by Beverly Mann Justice Kennedy’s Hard-Right Turn After (and Because of?) Citizens United Anyone who watches the Supreme Court closely surely recognizes that Justice Kennedy last year took a hard-right turn, effectively removing himself from the role of swing voter and siding nearly always with the Court’s four-member rightwing bloc in ideologically determined cases. This […]