For those of you unfamiliar with the Greenbag 2d. it is a fantastic publication run by Professor Davies at George Mason. Perhaps even cooler than the articles are the chachkas! They make Supreme Court Bobbleheads!
And now, a commemorative baseball card of Chief Justice Roberts!
It really irks me that Conservatives have suddenly discovered the doctrine of enumerated powers, now that the Federal Government is about to impose a huge Liberal agenda.
The same powers Congress will use to justify Obamacare authorize all federal drug laws.
If you think that health care is not interstate commerce, then growing marijuana plants in your backyard is certainly not interstate commerce. See Gonzales v. Raich.
With the exception of drugs that are actually transported interstate, banning the possession of narcotics is no less “interstate commerce” than mandating health care. State drug laws are constitutionally fine.
Conservatives like drug laws, but are opposed to health care mandates. I would like consistency from the Right, but I doubt it is possible.
Now Google allows you to figure out all of the pieces of information they know about you through your Google Dashboard.
I predicted about 2 years ago that Google would be a driving force in aggregating all information about a person’s Internet persona. This is exhibit A.
While it is currently private, I’m sure some Web 2.0 Exhibitionists would not mind making some of their social prowess public.
I had also predicted that Google could search through its Street View application, and by using simple facial recognition technology ,locate a user in their maps database. Though Google ultimately blurred faces, I can imagine this technology could easily be used to accomplish this end.
Check out this YouTube video explaining it.
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From the University of Chicago:
The University of Chicago Law School’s “Shakespeare and the Law” conference brought together thinkers from law, literature, and philosophy to investigate the legal dimensions of Shakespeare’s plays. Participants explored the ways in which the plays show awareness of law and legal regimes and comment on a variety of legal topics, ranging from general themes, such as mercy and the rule of law, to highly concrete legal issues of his time. Other papers investigated the subsequent influence of his plays on the law and explored more general issues concerning the relationship between law and literature.
The keynote session of the conference featured Justice Stephen Breyer, Judge Richard Posner, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics Martha Nussbaum, and Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Richard Strier (English, University of Chicago). It was recorded May 15th, 2009.
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