Baseball CrankThe Baseball Crank: Baseball, War, Politics, Law, and More!LAWPOLITICS: A Good Day For The First Amendment, Too- June 26, 2008 Justice Alito's opinion this morning in Davis v. FEC won't get as much attention as Heller, and breaks a lot less new ground, simply holding that Congress can't set up one set of contribution-and-expenditure campaign finance rules for everyone and then a second set of rules giving an unequal advantage intended to 'level the playing field' for candidates whose opponents are able to self-finance all or part of their campaigns (the so-called "Millionaires' Amendment," one of the more egregiously...http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/06/lawpolitics_a_g.php BASEBALL: To Ash You Shall Return- June 26, 2008 Peter Abraham summarizes the problem with unsafe, easily-splintered maple bats, and - sadly - why they are yet another thing that, as was so long true for steroids and the DH rule, (1) should be subject to immediate rulemaking by the Commissioner but instead (2) will likely be held hostage indefinitely by the players' union in the hopes of getting the owners to make some concession in return for a ban. Which is not to suggest in either case that the owners are pillars of virtue, just that so...http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/06/baseball_to_ash.php LAWPOLITICS: Waiting For Heller- June 26, 2008 The Supreme Court will hand down the DC gun controlSecond Amendment case, DC v. Heller, this morning around 10am. I won't be covering the opinion when it comes down, but SCOTUSBlog will have the first breaking reports, and my RedState colleagues will be looking at the opinion and its political ramifications. (I had looked at the tea-leaf-reading predictions here and here). UPDATE: Note that Barack Obama is now rendering his prior position on the case inoperative, although it remains to be...http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/06/lawpolitics_wai.php |