- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 12, 2013
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Pope Benedict XVI might be trendier than we thought
Retirement is all the rage among people in power.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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Public safety committee meeting avoids discussion of public safety
As the violence continues in Chicago, aldermen target phony military heroes
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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Posner v. Scalia
Richard Posner versus Antonin Scalia
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 2, 2012
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Is it OK to like Obamacare now that it's constitutional?
You mean Obamacare isn't unconstitutional!
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 28, 2012
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A national tragedy!
These American patriots have had enough!
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2012
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The Court's federalist capers
States' rights take another hit from the Supreme Court
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 27, 2012
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Will an old Reader guy be the ruin of Obamacare?
The law school prof behind the challenge to the health care bill used to sell ads for the Reader.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2011
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The dubious law that put Otto Kerner away
There's much more to the fall of Otto Kerner than the Chicago Tribune reported.
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 16, 2011
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The misfire
Chicago's tough gun law was supposed to help officials track who's acquiring guns and who's misusing them. So far it's doing neither.
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 16, 2011
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City's gun law has little firepower
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2010
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Thinking Through and Beyond the Election
The election without tears — from professor Peter Dreier
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 16, 2010
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Rob Blagojevich and the Theft of Honest Services
Rob Blagojevich should be glad he's not being judged simply on whether he was an upright public servant
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 20, 2010
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Conrad Black Is About to Be Bailed Out
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 2, 2010
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City Council Passes Strict New Handgun Law a Day After Seeing It For the First Time
Less than a day after it was introduced, the Chicago City Council has unanimously passed a new gun-control law that city officials call one of the toughest in the country. "The details don't really matter," says one alderman.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 28, 2010
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Mayor Daley Vows to Put New Gun Regulations in Place But Won't Say What They Are
Mayor Daley promises that more gun regulations are on the way for Chicago—but he won't say what they are, and he can't say when anyone's been charged with violating the city's current gun ban.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 28, 2010
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City Council to Consider New Gun Regulations Tuesday
The City Council makes plans for more gun regulations, but not everyone's on board with Mayor Daley's gun rhetoric.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 24, 2010
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A Good Day for Conrad Black
Supreme Court cuts honest-services fraud statute down to size, making freedom for Conrad Black more likely
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 4, 2010
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Nibbling Away at Miranda
Listen to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the original Miranda case, which the Court just cut down to size.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 2, 2010
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The Honest Services Law Has a Rough Day in Court
Skeptical Supreme Court considers the Honest Services law.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2010
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Would Otto Kerner's Conviction Actually Have Been Expunged?
In light of the way it handled other honest services fraud convictions in the late 1980s, we shouldn't assume that the Seventh Circuit would have overturned Otto Kerner's.
