I think people forget that, at least for Roberts, Kavanaugh, Coney-Barrett and Gorsuch, these are essentially highly capable legal minds with a conservative angle. They aren't ignorant of the po… (View Post)

Again, I'd certainly not say it's an attractive building. But having few or no windows on the side elevation of a house is hardly a new phenomenon in towns (even ignoring terraced housing w… (View Post)

The answer to that is that Roberts is Chief Justice and just isn't going to dick about. So essentially he'll run the administrative meeting and will say "right, you've all had a w… (View Post)

I don't think there is a formal deadline, but declining to take a case is an active decision in the sense that they'd simply publish a denial of the writ of certiorari. So what happens is t… (View Post)

At the peak of the Cold War, no major US TV journalist had his tongue so far up Khrushchev's arsehole he could polish his dentures, to be fair. (View Post)