Blog Update

Law Dork has this post on the new Court and the Commerce Clause.

Indiana Barriser reports here on a new bill S. 1786, authored by Sen. Arlen Specter, which would allow the televising of United States Supreme Court proceedings.

The Nation has this article on Judge Roberts’ 1985 “AIDS Memo” written for President Reagan, which declared that “we should assume AIDS can be transmitted through casual or routine contact, as is true with many viruses, until it is demonstrated that it cannot be.” The authors of the article contend that by 1983 scientists had identified a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS which was known to infect only upon entering the bloodstream, directly or through mucosal membranes–not through intact skin.