There has been so much SCOTUS news in the past two days that it’s easy to ignore cases that ordinarily would be of enormous importance but have been overshadowed by others. One is the disparate impact case, otherwise known by … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’m writing something quite long on the subject, but I may end up sending it out to another publication, and I’m still in the middle of writing it. Meanwhile, I thought I’d provide this shorter thread for you to … Continue reading →
A dissent has no power except the power of its words and its logic—that is, it has no legal power. So Scalia’s dissent in King v. Burwell (joined by Alito and Thomas) is satisfying only in the rhetorical and intellectual … Continue reading →
We were expecting the ruling in King v. Burwell any day now, and here it is. The vote was 6-3, with swing justice Kennedy and new swing justice Roberts joining in interpreting the statute in a manner that preserves the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see this subsequent post on the British use of the word “Asian.”] The Rotherham sex scandal, already bad enough, grows in scope: The sex-trafficking ring in Rotherham may well be the worst in the West ever, or so … Continue reading →
I have a new article at PJ on Obama’s push for gun control in the wake of the Charleston murders. [ADDENDUM: Obama keeps pressing gun control in the wake of Charleston. As I wrote in my PJ article, “in the … Continue reading →
And I don’t think they care. Just the narrative, Ma’m, just the narrative. Case in point: how many times, in how many places, did you read that Roof’s father gave him a gun for his 21st birthday, which occurred in … Continue reading →
…oh why were they given the prison privileges they appear to have been given? The answer to the first is: among the most psychopathic, cold-blooded killers in the prison population, and that’s saying something. Both of them have been known … Continue reading →
Obama wants to end neighborhoods of privilege, under some sort of “disparate impact” rule (sound familiar?) combined with an executive order that bypasses Congress (also sound familiar?). The goal is “diversity”, and here’s the way it would work: A final … Continue reading →
It seems that several doctors seen by Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz before his suicidal/homicidal crash felt that he should be grounded, but their hands were tied by strict doctor/patient privacy laws in Germany: …[Lubitz] had seen seven doctors within the … Continue reading →
The plot thickens with Mosby: Roughly three weeks before Baltimore police officers arrested Gray for possession of an illegal knife Mosby herself was strongly advocating for substantially increased policing in the very neighborhood where Gray would be taken into custody, … Continue reading →
…asks Atlantic writer Russell Berman: …[Obama’s] decision to champion his signature achievement in such pointed terms just weeks before the high court’s ruling is due raised the question of whether Obama was trying to jawbone the justices at the 11th … Continue reading →