I have had the great pleasure this evening of introducing Prof. Noah Feldman on the occasion of his talk on his new book, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve, 2010). Noah’s interlocutor: our great friend Christopher Lydon, former Berkman Center fellow and journalist who has led the way in … Read more
The AP this morning quotes Justice Scalia as saying: “The Constitution just sets minimums,” Scalia said. “Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.” Did I hear that right?
Berkman Student Fellow Ben Edelman offers this (and more) about what he heard during yesterday’s SCOTUS proceedings regarding the challenge to CIPA and related filtering laws: “The government’s most successful argument yesterday seemed to be that, they allege, libraries and librarians have long made decisions as to which books to obtain and which to exclude … Read more