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2. Blindly Following Your Team Captain: Why Republicans Should Stop Clapping

Former Republican Congressman, founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation, and national chairman of the American Conservative Union, Mickey Edwards is the author of Reclaiming Conservatism: How A Great American Political Movement Got Lost- and How It Can Find It Way Back. He attended the State of the Union address Monday night and shared his reaction with us yesterday. Today Edwards wonders why the Republican members of Congress were so enthusiastic at the SOTU Monday. Read Edwards other OUPblog posts here.

For Republican members of Congress, the man who delivered a State of the Union speech Monday night was not merely a President of the United States – the head of one of the other branches of the federal government – but, more importantly, he was their team captain. (more…)

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3. India Court Rejects J.K. Rowling Claim For Copyright Infringement

A followup this morning on the story we told you about yesterday regarding a claim made by lawyers representing author J.K. Rowling and a Hogwarts type building made for a religious festival in India. A replica of the magical castle... Read the rest of this post

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4. What’s Next? The Legal Questions: Part Three

Today is part three in Mark V. Tushnet’s blog series about the 2nd amendment. Tushnet is the author of Out Of Range: Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle Over Guns and is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. To read the other posts in this series click here.  Be sure to come back tomorrow for the final installment in this series.

The Supreme Court is going to consider whether to decide the constitutionality of the District of Columbia’s complete ban on handgun possession. Suppose the Court adopts the gun-rights position that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. What happens then? (more…)

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