Response to Michael

Well, Michael, my friend:  With respect to hiring and firing U.S. Attorneys, I say ("shrugging [my] shoulders"), the White House is entitled -- of course -- to do what it wants.  And, I suspect I am as clear about the merits of OSHA's policies as you are, yet I retain my doubts about whether it makes sense to assimilate debates about OSHA policy to, say, debates about a ban on partial-birth abortion. 

As for your comment about the death-penalty cases, I share your admiration for Judge Noonan.  That said, I'm curious:  Is your claim that -- since, after all, any case that reaches the Supreme Court is one about which reasonable people can disagree -- no decent judge may ever vote against a claim brought by an inmate on death row?  You and I agree that the death penalty should be abolished.  Does this mean, though, that we are precluded from thinking that not everyone on death row has a winning legal argument?