“The fact that we as a society have moved away from public executions would have mattered a lot for that earlier doctrinal understanding. That it wouldn’t mean nearly so much today is, in my view, a pretty telling indictment of #SCOTUS’s entirely recent jurisprudential shift.” Me on Nidal Hasan:

“The fact that we as a society have moved away from public executions would have mattered a lot for that earlier doctrinal understanding. That it wouldn’t mean nearly so much today is, in my view, a pretty telling indictment of #SCOTUS’s entirely recent jurisprudential shift.” Me on Nidal Hasan:

Auditions for a Supreme Court seat continue apace

It takes six votes to agree to summary adjudication, but it can be 5-4 as to the result thereafter.

Nope. The case you’re citing is pre-AEDPA.

Some time ago (but still *way* too recently), I had trouble at the airport with a TSA staffer who didn't recognize "Washington, D.C." as a valid issuer of driver's licenses.

One of my favorite trivia questions is to name the three countries that have two-letter state-like USPS abbreviations.

Now *that* I would've screenshotted and celebrated, as opposed to this b.s.

LOL. One could have some real fun with this...

Then they'll mail the check to Washington, WA. I think "Washington, N/A 200xx" has a higher chance of making it to me.

In the year of our lord 2026, a pull-down list for "state" as part of a vendor registration form provided by an Ivy League university does not offer the District of Columbia as a possible choice. C'mon people.

Hence the “if.”