Lesbians are so upset that lesbians are calling themselves lesbians that they’re taking lesbians to court to assert their right to be the only Lesbians. The whole thing is kinda gay.

In an effort to significantly enhance the public integrity unit, Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien disbanded it. Also, this has nothing to do with Elliott Spitzer or the tendency of public corruption units to expose public corruption. It’s about math.

Lawrence Lessig launched the Change Congress movement this week. Their goal? No more money from corporate political action committees and lobbyists. No more earmarks to fund pet projects in federal spending bills. Public financing for all congressional campaigns. And throughout it all, transparency. Watch the inspiring video.

Actually, there was nothing subtle about the tea leaves. This post focuses in particular on Kennedy’s questions at oral argument, which, besides romanticizing cowboys, suggested an intent to overrule United States v. Miller. Yee hah!

A reader asked, what is legal standing? This post was written in response. It goes through the basic elements and addresses (very summarily) the legitimacy of the doctrine.

Yes, the Constitution includes a requirement for presidency that the person be “natural born.” And yes, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. But no, it doesn’t likely matter, because no one would have standing to sue (in all likelihood), if John McCain became president.

When is the Congress not “in session” for the purposes of the recess appointment clause? Are they not in session over the weekends? What about when they take a lunch break? How long, in other words, do they not have to be present for the president to make a recess appointment? Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Congress adopted the four-day theory.