Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Judge Robert Yates, aka Brutus, warned of the problems of a Supreme Court acting without checks and balances in 1787, in the Anti-Federalist Papers. Of all the issues facing us today, the one of overriding importance is who will replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. It is a lit
Continue readingKennedy Retires. Public Sector Unions given the Wisconsin treatment. La Judicial Resistance smacked down. A big day in the news for the Supreme Court. The most important news is that Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. The Supreme Court is losing not merely its best gay romance novelist, but its swing
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Today’s must-read: Vincent Phillip Muñoz’s article about Progressives’ and Conservatives’ different ideological approaches to equality. To the extent we conservatives look to the Constitution as the alpha and omega of our political ideology, we’ve thought a lot about equality in theory and in practice. Problems arise, though, when Progressives push
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The Gorsuch nomination, pitting Originalism against a “living Constitution,” is a fight for America’s soul — so pay attention because this is important! Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination has brought to the fore the seemingly dry argument about two competing theories of Constitutional interpretation, Originalism and the “living Constitution.” Gorsuch himself
Continue readingOkay, I admit it. I’m easy. Call me “winsome” and write a thoughtful, well-informed, interesting article about the continuing resonance abortion has on the political process — even if it did not serve as the centerpiece of this last political campaign — and of course I’m going to link to
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