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Articles Written by: JOSH PATASHNIK
Josh Gerstein at Politico flags a pretty dubious argument (see also here) against seeking the death penalty for the alleged 9/11 plotters: They're being tried in New York, which doesn't currently have a death penalty statute, so doesn't it offend ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
18 Nov 2009
Just in case the California Legislature's passage of a landmark water bill earlier this week had convinced you that John Judis is wrong and that things are finally looking up for the Golden State, William Voegeli's essay in the current issue of City ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
5 Nov 2009
Maybe it's just me, but the bait-and-switch Ezra apparently envisions seems pretty unconscionable. Back in the day, states were concerned that at some point in the future the federal government would try to usurp their sovereignty, so they wrote very ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
12 Oct 2009
The Supreme Court made waves yesterday with its nearly unprecedented decision to order a federal district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing into the case of Troy Davis, the Georgia man sentenced to death based largely on the testimony of ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
18 Aug 2009
As legislators in Sacramento work late into the night to pass the budget package agreed to by Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders earlier in the week, it's worth checking out Kevin Drum's spot-on summary of the consequences for the ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
24 Jul 2009
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But what would "objectively right or wrong answers" mean, Josh? Even if someone has a stronger case, when it comes ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
16 Jul 2009
Matthew Yglesias, in a nice post exploring the nature of presidential political capital, writes:
The American presidency is a weird institution. If Barack Obama
wants to start a war with North Korea and jeopardize the lives of
hundreds of thousands of ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
16 Jun 2009
Maybe not. ... Far from being activist, [a ruling for the white firefighters in the Ricci case] would vindicate the central
thrust of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Constitution's equal
protection clause.
I'm often sympathetic to ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
7 Jun 2009
In response to the Fox News poll indicating that one in six Americans thinks Oprah would do a good job as a Supreme Court justice, Matthew Yglesias says:
I’m actually 100 percent positive that were Oprah on the Supreme Court
she would do a good job. In ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
17 May 2009
Back when I was a professional journalist, one of my main goals was to combine questionable biological, historical, and sports metaphors in one paragraph. I never succeeded in this endeavor, though not for lack of effort. But, kudos to Michael ...
From JOSH PATASHNIK,
The New Republic,
8 May 2009
