SCOTUS has ruled 6-2 (Kagan abstaining) that Michigan’s law against race-based affirmative action is constitutional. In other words, it’s not racial discrimination to ban the sort of racial discrimination that is supposedly designed for the purpose of redressing racial discrimination. … Continue reading →
Here are some cautionary tales about the strength and possible danger of legal marijuana edibles, whether they be sold as medical marijuana or in states like Colorado which choose to legalize general marijuana sales: Last year, the poison center run … Continue reading →
This New Yorker article by Jelani Cobb manages to discuss the failure of desegregation laws in the US without acknowledging some of the underlying reasons behind it: And so, sixty years after Brown, it is clear that the notion of … Continue reading →
I must confess that the McCutcheon case that was decided by SCOTUS yesterday rested on an area of law with which I wasn’t all that familiar. One of the big questions yesterday’s ruling raised for me was: if campaign contributions … Continue reading →
Not the ceiling on each campaign contribution, mind you, but their total. The vote was the very familiar 5-4: Wednesday’s decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission…did not affect familiar base limits on contributions from individuals to candidates, currently $2,600 … Continue reading →
This piece by Margaret Carlson is disingenuous and/or purposely misleading in so many ways it’s hard to choose one to highlight, but I’ll deal with one of the simplest: it discusses the Hobby Lobby case without once mentioning that the … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind: In a stunning criminal complaint, State Sen. Leland Yee has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, casting yet another cloud … Continue reading →
What a difference a few years—and a seat on the throne of power—make. The context in which Trey Gowdy was speaking here was the debate on the Enforce the Law Act, by which Congress would attempt to give itself standing … Continue reading →
…to defeat his nominee for the head of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, Debo Adegbile, a choice that raised an unusual amount of criticism because Adegbile had defended convicted cop-killer and leftist darling Mumial Abu-Jamal. The LA Times … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a horrific terrorist attack at a train station in China, in which knife-wielding separatists killed at least 29 people and wounded over a hundred others before four of the murderers were shot and killed by police. Points … Continue reading →
The constant comparisons of Arizona’s now-defunct effort (SB 1062) to protect the religious rights of vendors to refuse to be part of gay marriage ceremonies to southern Jim Crow laws requiring de jure discrimination against blacks represent a tower of … Continue reading →
Attorney General Eric Holder to state AGs: disregard your oaths of office. I did!: Holder said state attorneys general do not have to enforce laws they disagree with, specifically when it comes to the issue of gay marriage. “It is … Continue reading →