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Democrats vs. President Bush: To the courts or not, and how?
McClatchy
… with little precedent and thin legislative jurisdiction over how the president can hire and fire his appointees, Congress’ case looks weak to many experts.
Legal theory lexicon: the counter-majoritarian difficulty
Legal Theory Blog
The counter-majoritarian difficulty may be the best known problem in constitutional theory.
Supreme Court chief suffers a seizure
Washington Post
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a seizure and fell near his summer home in Maine today and was taken to an area hospital, where he will remain overnight, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said.
Roberts, 52, has “fully recovered” from the 2 p.m. incident except for “minor scrapes” sustained in the fall …
Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?
Christopher Hitchens
Many distinguished authors, Muslim and non-Muslim, are dead or in hiding because of the words they have put on pages concerning the unbelievable claims of Islam. And it is to appease such a spirit of persecution and intolerance that a student in New York City has been arrested for an expression, however vulgar, of an opinion.
This has to stop, and it has to stop right now.
(HT: Instapundit)