Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Can the Supreme Court Provide Just Desserts?
Time for Different Flavors of Legal Reasoning
Ben and Jerry’s flavor honoring Stephen Colbert — “Americone Dream” — has been so successful, people are coming with other ideas. Tania Lambrozio gets lawyers into the act with her nomination: “Ruth Bader Ginger.” I’ve never actually had ginger ice cream, although I love ginger bread, so maybe it could work. Now there is a petition …
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CONTINUE READINGConnecticut v. AEP: The Judicial Power of the Purse
That’s not my phrase: it’s Jerry Frug’s. But it applies here. Rhead reports that in the Connecticut v. AEP argument, Justice Breyer, setting up one of his classic hypotheticals, wanted to know why a judge should not impose a $20-a-ton carbon tax as a judicial remedy. (Answer: because he can’t.) It’s not clear to me …
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