We all feel blogwatch in the dark…

Dave Tepper writes about Gov. McGreevey and same-sex marriage. I think Dave’s way of connecting the two is wrong, and there are major reasons for even a supporter of SSM to avoid this interpretation of events. Chris Crain and Jonathan Rauch roughly agree with Dave; E.J. Graff, Josh Chafetz of Oxblog, Sed Contra, and I (here) roughly disagree, from quite different political positions.

Sed Contra on a startlingly sound piece from the Washington Post on “Washingtonienne.” Draw your own connections to McGreevey’s situation.

Dahlia Lithwick says the term “activist judges” is meaningless but gives us nothing other than personal policy-outcome preferences as a guideline for how judges should interpret the law. I growl at this view at length here and at an oblique angle here and here (please do read all of those before replying if you think I’m on crack). Basic thesis: “[B]oth Bush v. Gore and Roe v. Wade were wrongly decided, and [] their problems, while hardly identical, are related.”…Lithwick link via How Appealing and Family Scholars.