Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 22 / Good thing it wasn't addiction to blogging

A CALIFORNIA man is suing the makers of World of Warcraft for $1 million, claiming his addiction to the online video game has left him . . . 

NOVEMBER 19 / Stratfor on war and justice

GEORGE FRIEDMAN teaches everything we need to know the "extraordinarily complex can of worms" Attorney General Holder has opened with his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court.  

NOVEMBER 16 / UPDATED: Texas's anti-Kelo amendment dissed by legal scholar

ILYA SOMIN, George Mason law associate professor, says Proposition 11 on the November 11 ballot -- the anti-Kelo amendment -- has a big loophole.

OCTOBER 20 / Whims of the ballot box

THE CHRONICLE, which ordinarily travels to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or thereabouts to find candidates for canonization as saints of the high church of the left, today said an ardent and reverential goodbye to homegrown liberal William Wayne Justice -- the Tyler federal judge who never met a judicial mandate he didn't like.

AUGUST 12 / Sotomayor's ruling was her own

STUART TAYLOR, Jr. -- a superb lawyer and even better journalist and legal commentator-- says Judge (now Justice) Sotomayor was not compelled by precedent to rule against the white and Hispanic firefights in the Ricci case.

The bottom line is that 2nd Circuit precedents did not make Sotomayor rule as she did. Supreme Court precedent favored the firefighters. Sotomayor's ruling was her own.

JULY 30 / The Chronicle thumps Cornyn

OUR INK-STAINED INTELLECTUALS this week knocked Senator Cornyn for declaring against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The nut of the argument:

Sotomayor's credentials are solid, and she is no more a judicial activist than the current conservatives on the high court.

Let's stipulate for purposes of argument -- not necessarily because it's true -- that Ms. Sotomayor's academic and professional credentials are first-class.

JULY 27 / Stuart Taylor on an important free-speech issue

STUART TAYLOR, Jr. (than whom few are worthier of your attention), "Campaign Finance and Corporations," National Journal, July 11, 2009:

While many conservatives are all too eager to unleash Big Business to spend on campaigns, most liberals have been all too content to censor nonprofit advocacy corporations. They have also ignored the blatantly self-interested and illegitimate nature of Congress's decision to . . . hog-tie such advocacy groups . . . .

JULY 20 / Sotomayor postgame report

HOW DID Judge Sotomayor do? Stuart Taylor, Jr. -- a gentleman to the core --  still can't quite figure it out.

JULY 15 / Sotomayor hearing junkies, park here

THE Voloch Conspiracy, the best conservative legal-themed blog, is rockin' and rollin'. It's not for the casual fan, but folks with a deep interest in con law -- stuff like the commerce clause and  incorporation doctrine -- couldn't do better than to bookmark Voloch and, of course, Stuart Taylor, Jr. 

JULY 13 / How is this not racist and sexist?

"A White Man's Voice as Judge"