It’s run by conservatives – I disagree with the reference to “the deeply disappointing records of Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter,” and I don’t see Janice Rogers Brown or Priscilla Owen as preferable nominees.
Still, strange bedfellows and all that.
My finger seems to be normal again. That’s good.
Unfortunately, my throat has been sorer today than yesterday. I decided to take the day off from work. After Matt and I had lunch at Lemongrass, I went to the hardware store and bought new air-conditioner filters. Hopefully that’ll make things better.
I also went through my several boxes of memorabilia today (from childhood, adolescence, high school and college) and separated out about half the stuff to toss in the trash. God, I’ve been such a packrat. I don’t know why I was keeping my high school U.S. History notes or my DC Heroes role-playing game.
In other news, I’ve been thinking about starting a law blog (or “blawg”). Lately I’ve been writing lots of law-type stuff, and I’m not sure how interesting it is to my readers. On the other hand, I don’t know if I’d want to write about legal stuff enough to justify a daily law blog.
But this afternoon (and this will sound random) I finished reading Justice Souter’s dissent in Seminole Tribe v. Florida, a major Eleventh Amendment case from 1996. I studied the case in law school and saw a reference to it again recently, so I decided to print out Souter’s dissent and reread it. It’s a brilliant piece of scholarship, and it’s nearly three times as long as Rehnquist’s misguided majority opinion. Over the past 100+ years, the Supreme Court has fucked up the Eleventh Amendment beyond belief.
Anyway, I like having just one blog. Even if it doesn’t have a consistent focus, and some readers might be thrown off by some of the topics, this blog’s a reflection of me and of what’s going through my brain at any given time. And again, I don’t think I’m obsessive enough to keep up a daily blawg.
So I might as well just keep the one.
Here’s a great analysis of how Roberts could become part of a new “Gang of 3” on the Court:
Thus, the possibility is a Court in the new Term starting in October that has Scalia and Thomas, joined somewhat loosely by Rehnquist, on the most conservative wing, Justices Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens on the most liberal wing, and Roberts somewhat loosely aligned in the center with Kennedy and Breyer.
It’s all tea leaves at this point, but this is interesting nonetheless.