What’s the Supreme Court Cooking Up Now? BY TED VAILL At the University of Chicago Law School in the 1960s, my constitutional law professor was Phil Kurland, a Buddha-like figure who clerked for famous Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Kurland never was appointed to the Supreme Court himself, but he managed to set himself up as the oracle of the Supreme Court when he edited The Supreme Court Review, which analyzed critically the Supremes’ decisions each year, after the Court’s term ended in late June. Kurland is long gone, but he was succeeded as Chicago’s constitutional law professors by current Justice Antonin Scalia and future President Barack Obama, among others. As the student in Kurland’s class who got the highest grade, I feel that it is appropriate for me to review some of the decisions of the Supreme Court for this term, even those which have not been decided yet.   READ MORE shared from

THURSDAY, 11 JUNE 2015 Racial Tension in the City Scot Nakagawa: So you grow up in the burbs, attend better schools and enjoy other advantages as a result, and then decide that now that you’re a big wage earner, you’d rather live where the poor people are and push them to the places you’re abandoning because those neighborhoods make you “nauseated.” READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend How Nestlē's "Free" Baby Formula Leads to Starvation Rosemary Jenkins: Nearly 12% of baby deaths can be prevented through breast-feeding! And Nestlē must be blamed and take responsibility for a good many of those preventable deaths!   READ HERE What's the Supreme Court Cooking Up Now? Ted Vaill: Think about how history would have been different if Justice Antonin Scalia had not sacrificed his legal principles to cast the deciding vote to elect George W. Bush president.   READ MORE What Is China Like? Steve Hochstadt: I saw a country where the lack of democracy was barely visible, but economic growth was everywhere. For the people whose country was among the poorest in the world not so long ago, that might seem an acceptable trade-off. READ MORE LAUSD Relaxes Graduation Requirements Leonard Isenberg:Rather than once and for all fixing this longstanding and purposefully failed public education system, they have decided to "fix" the public education system by eliminating any objective standard of what is acceptable work.   READ HERE

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