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...conservatives from using the specter of a Democratic-appointed Supreme Court to try to rally support. "Its pretty clear that if he's elected and Justice Scalia or Kennedy retires that he's going to appoint someone who's very likely to reverse [the gun control decision]," says Eugene Volokh, a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Given how Obama has been responding to the recent Supreme Court decisions, however, you're not likely to hear him talking about appointing liberal justices much between now and November...
...demoted or suffer any other obvious damage. And even if the outing violated federal law (and there?s still no evidence that it did), that wouldn?t make it unconstitutional. So ?the claim is much weaker than the typical claim? of harming speech through retaliation, says Eugene Volokh, a constitutional law professor at UCLA law school. If the judge believes the claim is weak enough, he will throw...
...Plame argues that the Rove crew violated her constitutional right to privacy by revealing the nature of her job. But as Volokh points out, in Supreme Court jurisprudence, such privacy violations have involved embarrassing information, like sexual antics or medical conditions. The disclosure of Plame?s occupation may have been illegal, but it was probably not an unconstitutional intrusion on her privacy...
...Eugene Volokh, a UCLA constitutional law professor and popular legal blogger, dismisses Berkeley's move as a "man bites dog story." Berkeley's new ballot measure and the grassroots movement to impeach Bush is just a way for the far left to express its "visceral anger," he says; unlike previous calls for presidential impeachment, which involved "clear criminal violations," the call by Berkeley and other cities to impeach Bush is about opposition to "judgment calls dealing about very, very serious national security problems." But as a veteran of the sharply divided blogosphere, Volokh should know better than most that criminality...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Harvard Law School (HLS).The launch coincided with a all-day conference on blogging called “Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship,” which boasted appearances from well-known names in the blogosphere such as Eugene Volokh of “The Volokh Conspiracy” and Glenn Reynolds of “InstaPundit.”The blog server, which is open to anyone with a “.harvard.edu” email address is larger and faster than the original server run by the Berkman...