NOTES

Yes, the Party of the Right still exists at Yale. I wondered about this below; it's a sign of the cultural divide between grad students and undergrads at Yale that I had never heard of these folks.

I updated my "reader response" post on judicial history in Nevada by adding my kind correspondent's last name: Dennis Myers.

Dan, at Lies Damned Lies and Statistics, coming off a fine installment of Carnival of the Vanities, has a post responding to my comments on Hostettler's non-enforcement amendments to an appropriations bill last week; Dan's [OOPS! should read: "Dan"] notes that his personal experiences with Hostettler do not inspire confidence in the man's judgment. I'm a little more willing than Dan to accept moves toward congressional constitutional interpretation, even if it seems counter to Marbury v. Madison (and, especially, the tradition of citing Marbury in the twentieth century to establish judicial supremacy). Most, but not all, people who criticise judicial supremacy do it from the right, while I am doing it more from the left, I suppose, but I also think that judicial supremacy has been oversold for cultural and contingent historical reasons.

Papascott has a critical post on my thoughts on Germans ditching restrictive rules on sales. He's not the only one who took issue with my defense of such restrictive laws. More on that later.

Finally, thanks to blogorrhea, Chris Lawrence, Net Velo, Southern Appeal, Camassia, The Curmudgeonly Clerk, Intelligent Life, Waldheim, Priorities and Frivolities, Dormouse Dreaming, and Lawrence Solum for paying attention to my rambling thoughts over the past week.