Gillette-Torvik Blog

The Supreme Court will decide the gay marriage cases today.

According to Politico , Mr. Toobin has made yet another wrong prediction about the Supreme Court: the CNN legal analyst and New Yorker sta...

Mr. Boies has not argued the case for legalizing gay marriage to the United States Supreme Court yet but he is already predicting how the Su...

Despite the fact that noted idiot Steve King was re-elected, Iowa voters demonstrated more sense this election than in 2010.  This time anti...

Here's my prediction for the electoral college: Obama, 281; Romney, 257. On the popular vote, I'll take Obama 50.1%, Romney 49%. Rea...

I hope we are not turning into a blog about all things Posner .  That said, I recall a New Yorker article from several years ago that mentio...

Jeffrey Toobin, a noted Supreme Court expert and famed prognosticator , has an essay on the Obamacare case in the latest issue of The New Y...

--Gillette-Torvik Blog, July 18, 2010, "Constitutionality of the 'individual mandate' in the health insurance reform bill....

I was going to title this post "D-Day," but then I saw that Linda Greenhouse already has a post by that title up at the New York ...

Of all the bad predictions I've made on this blog, one stands out: I predicted  failure for the campaign to unseat three Iowa Supreme Co...

Today, the Supreme Court decided  Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S.  Justice Kagan authored the  opinion  for a ...

For once, one of my predictions comes true .

First, I thought I'd point out an interesting back-and-forth between Randy Barnett and Jack Balkin  about the constitutionality of the i...

The New York Times notes an interesting twist in the Obama administration's defense of the "individual mandate" aspect of the...