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The Supreme Court and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Dec. 05, 2019
In a 2008 case called District of Columbia v. Heller, and again in a 2010 case called McDonald v. Ci... Read More
Can Senseless Gun Regulations Be Constitutional? New York City's Successful Defense of Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Transporting Handguns Highlights Judicial Disrespect for the Second Amendment Dec. 04, 2019
New York's uniquely onerous restrictions on transporting guns were so hard to justify that the city ... Read More
Puppies and Kittens Trump the Constitution: The New Federal Ban on Animal Cruelty Converts the Commerce Clause Into a General Police Power Nov. 13, 2019
I guess I should say at the outset that I do not favor torturing puppies and kittens. But there is a... Read More
Cops Don't Need Another Excuse to Hassle Innocent Drivers: Supreme Court Shouldn't Let Police Stop Cars Simply Because They're Registered to People With Suspended Licenses Oct. 30, 2019
At any given time, millions of Americans are forbidden to drive because their licenses have been sus... Read More
Will the Supreme Court or Congress Ban Discrimination Against Gays? Oct. 20, 2019
For 55 years, federal law has banned employment discrimination on the basis of sex. If you're a woma... Read More
Will the Supreme Court Decide for Education Freedom? Oct. 16, 2019
The Supreme Court, in its new term, will hear a case that could remove a major barrier that stands b... Read More
The Attorney General Is Determined to Undermine Your Privacy: The Encryption Limits the Justice Department Demands in the Name of Security Would Make Us All Less Secure Oct. 16, 2019
The Justice Department claims to support "strong encryption, which is used by billions of people eve... Read More
The Emerging Supremacy of the Judicial Branch Oct. 10, 2019
As the Supreme Court begins its new term this week, its docket is filled with a number of controvers... Read More
Can Ruth Bader Ginsburg Make a Man Into a Woman? Oct. 09, 2019
Judging by the argument that one lawyer made to Justice Neil Gorsuch, Tuesday must have been an inte... Read More
Lynch Law, Anyone? Sep. 24, 2019
We can't seem to have a news event (and everything that happens in our capital city is a capital-E e... Read More
The Left's Kavanaugh Smear Implodes -- Again Sep. 20, 2019
Believe it or not, it was a year ago that a constellation of left-wing activist groups cooked up a s... Read More
Relentless Progressives Malign Kavanaugh and Conservatives Sep. 20, 2019
Democrats are dismantling our justice system — founded on the presumption of innocence —... Read More
Daily Life in the Pigpen Sep. 17, 2019
We live in extraordinary times, do we not? No one I know can remember, so far as I am aware, discuss... Read More
The Gambler: RBG and the Trump Campaign Aug. 27, 2019
Over the weekend, the media took notice of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's apparently successful treat... Read More
A Few Words About Guns and Personal Liberty Aug. 08, 2019
Last weekend's mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have produced a flood of words abou... Read More
Our Free Speech Crisis Jul. 10, 2019
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention du... Read More
Blame Wilbur Ross' Clumsy Lies for the Census Mess: The Commerce Secretary Could Easily Have Reinstated the Citizenship Question If He'd Been Less Transparently Dishonest Jul. 10, 2019
If you want to understand why the Trump administration is scrambling at the last minute to include a... Read More
Maybe Try Winning Jun. 28, 2019
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a non-justiciable... Read More
The Lemon Is Squeezed Dry Jun. 28, 2019
There's something attractive in the party names in the Supreme Court's decision on the relationship ... Read More
Supreme Court Punts on Two Major Issues Affecting the Future of Democracy Jun. 28, 2019
Much as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts insists there's no such thing as "Obama judges or T... Read More
