Barry and the S Court

May 6, 2010, 8:37 PM
Whose Originalism?
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law.

Used as an epithet, “activist judge” is almost always applied to a judge who has just issued a decision that the speaker doesn’t like. Conservatives affix the label to the Supreme Court of the 1960’s and 1970’s, as well as to anything they object to about the current court. The ink on Justice John Paul Stevens’s letter of resignation last month was barely dry before conservative political candidates and bloggers lined up to bid good riddance to “the liberal activist now leaving the court.” More

England?

Was something going on over there yesterday?

Chinglish

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/03/world/asia/20100503_CHINGLISH.html