Silver Lining in Kagan Confirmation

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  August 6th at 06:30 AM  | 

In an op-ed in the Daily Caller, I conclude that [B]elievers in the rule of law have several things to cheer in the Kagan confirmation battle. Republican senators mounted their strongest opposition in more than a century, sending strong signals to the White House about future Supreme Court picks, while teeing up important issues for this fall’s Senate races. The confirmation fight also saw the | Read More »

anti-Tea Party cartoon reveals ignorance

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  July 21st at 02:07 PM  | 

In today’s Washington Post, cartoonist Tom Toles argues that the tea party movement reveals itself to be racist by “want[ing] to go back to the Constitution as it was written,” despite the document’s acquiescence in the continuation of slavery. Toles’s cartoon is a particularly hateful variant of a misleading, but all too common, argument that tries to vilify critics of a “living Constitution” and justify | Read More »