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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Law Schmaw. I bought a convertible! I agree with Jen's topic shift. I have had it with law. I've been trying to get around to responding to Jen's inane suggestion that the affirmative action case was the biggest case o' the term. But, you see, I bought a convertible on Thursday, so I've had to drive it around incessantly. Here's a brief rejoinder, then back to the material goodness of a well-crafted German automobile: The affirmative action case basically said this: Powell was right. Now the Court endorses his Bakke view. So pretty much, things are the way we thought (but weren't sure) that they were. Lawrence v. Texas did the impossible -- it ADDED substance to the due process clause in the year 2003. Said that there is MORE TO the substantive due process provision than there was before. 'Member substantive due process? We're not taking it away -- we're giving you more -- and it has nothing to do with punitive damages. KEEEERAZY. Hoorah! I'm celebrating by driving around my aquarius blue convertible. So that's why I think, between the two, Lawrence was the more important case of the term.  
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