Mark Thompson

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In My Opinion’s Wake

Burt Likko April 15, 2014

Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that...

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Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part IV: Government’s Showing, Disposition

Mark of New Jersey April 15, 2014

The Ordinary Court's majority moves on to the final issue left in the case, and issues its...

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Parts II and III: Dissenting and Concurring Opinion IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-31837358563_2a043dbf2e_o

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Parts II and III: Dissenting and Concurring Opinion

Tim Kowal April 15, 2014

Tim Kowal agrees the Greens have individual standing, but suggests the corporation is the appropriate party to...

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Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part III: Justiciability of Individual Claims [Updated]

Mark of New Jersey April 15, 2014

In Part III of the Ordinary Court's treatment of the Hobby Lobby case, the Ordinary Justices' voting...

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Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part II: Justiciability of Corporate Claims

Burt Likko April 15, 2014

Part II of the opinion, dealing substantively with whether Hobby Lobby can state a claim for relief...

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part I: Background and Standards of Law IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Electric_scrubbing

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part I: Background and Standards of Law

Burt Likko April 14, 2014

The first part of the Ordinary Court's treatment of one of this year's most-publicized legal cases. To...

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All Rise! Ye Ordinary Court Is In Session

Burt Likko April 14, 2014

Introducing a new project by some of the lawyers and scholars writing for Ordinary Times: The Ordinary...

David TC in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThis is something I’d say to defend the article. Yes, Jaybird, me repeating part of the article that…
David TC in reply to Dark Matter on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreBlue has narratives which are undermined by Red being successful here. Red is supposed to be super r…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25In today's "merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic", two young Jewish men beat up in San Francisco by…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and Iranit’s likely the Clerical Regime is what is _stopping_ the development of nuclear weapons. The curren…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreIt’s just actual evidence-based education. It’s developing, using experts, a good curriculum, and th…
Dark Matter in reply to Brent F on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and Iranpretty good argument against Iranian “substantial involvement” as they clearly didn’t control Hamas…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25Nate Silver opens a proverbial can of proverbial worms by digging into the "so-called" Happiness Gap…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25He's back. I would wonder at the thought processes behind banning him. Or emotive processes, I guess…
Brent F in reply to Dark Matter on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and IranControl and direction is an important element of the "substantial involvement" threshold of determin…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreIt's "Film at 11". The joke dates back to the days when you had to develop film instead of just send…

Mark Thompson

In My Opinion’s Wake

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part IV: Government’s Showing, Disposition

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Parts II and III: Dissenting and Concurring Opinion

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part III: Justiciability of Individual Claims [Updated]

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part II: Justiciability of Corporate Claims

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Part I: Background and Standards of Law

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