Megan McArdle is pro-life, but she believes that Roe v. Wade rests on such shaky legal grounds that it needs to be reversed and the decision left to the states. What’s more, she does not think that would constitute a … Continue reading →
When something is done by administrative order, it can be undone by administrative order. That’s been happening a lot lately. The most recent example is this: The Justice Department will scrap seven guidance documents issued by the Education Department under … Continue reading →
The United States is one of the strongest bastions of free speech in the world, and perhaps one of the last. Even Europe doesn’t have anything like our protections for free speech, nor does Canada. Both have hate speech laws, … Continue reading →
Ah yes, the Bork hearings—one of the Democrats’ finest hours. Ruth Marcus, among others, would dearly love to revive it: …[T]his must be another Bork moment — insisting on a nominee that is, to invoke the language of the Bork … Continue reading →
Obama may have commandeered the phrase, but it’s the one that comes to mind at the moment: hope and change. It has to do with the federal judgeships, and in particular the possibility of a sea-change on the Supreme Court. … Continue reading →
The Supreme Court finished up the liberty trifecta with Janus: …[H]as there been a bigger win for small-government, real-life conservatives over the past few decades than the Janus v. AFSCME ruling? The decision not only fortifies the First Amendment by … Continue reading →
It occurs to me, on reading many many reactions from the left to Justice Kennedy’s resignation, that the left had gotten to thinking that the Court was theirs, and that any change towards conservatism was illegitimate. Against the march of … Continue reading →
Justice Kennedy has announced that he will be ending his Supreme Court tenure in July. It seems pretty obvious that Kennedy has timed his retirement in a way that will maximize the GOP hand in choosing his successor. There’s a … Continue reading →
A whole lotta law news today, isn’t there? In another SCOTUS decision, the Court ruled in NIFLA v. Becerra that a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers (pregnancy counseling clinics usually run by pro-life Christians) to post notices that “California … Continue reading →
That’s a question that’s been asked quite a bit lately. People claim to see signs of withdrawal in Kennedy that they interpret as the prodrome of retirement (for example see this). I have to say that these days I tend … Continue reading →
In the end, the vote went as so many SCOTUS decisions do, 5-4 with Kennedy being the swing vote. I am almost certain that had Garland been confirmed at the end of Obama’s administration, instead of waiting for Trump and … Continue reading →
In the comments to this post a discussion emerged about whether any Germans living in this country were interned in camps during WWII. Most people are well aware of the US internment of ethnic Japanese, but no one seemed to … Continue reading →