March 29, 2020

COVID-19: Distancing is no solution to a spiritual problem

As the great Titanic continued to sink in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, bringing certain death to the men remaining on board, some safety boat survivors remembered hearing the big ship’s string quartet playing the hymn Nearer My Go...

August 1, 2016

The ABA's Plan to Impose Political Correctness on the Practice of Law

From August 4 through 9, 2016, the American Bar Association ("ABA") will hold its annual meeting in San Francisco.  Among the scheduled events is the business meeting of the House of Delegates, the ABA's governing body.  The D...

June 26, 2013

Voting Rights Act: Winning the Case While Losing the Principle

Yesterday morning, by a vote of five to four, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress could no longer rely on data of state racial discrimination affecting voting rights which had been assembled in the 1960's and 1970's to justify the preclearance...

February 7, 2013

Assassin in Chief?

Exercising a power that no prior president ever thought he possessed -- a power that no prior president is known to have exercised -- President Obama admitted that he ordered the execution of American citizens, not on a battlefield, based on his beli...

April 29, 2012

Arizona v. United States: Reading the Tea Leaves of Oral Argument

On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v. United States, involving the constitutionality of the State's effort to combat illegal immigration.  In one sense, it was a rematch between former Solicitor General Paul...

January 20, 2012

The Proposed Enemy Expatriation Act: Sending American Citizens into Exile

Sparked by the nation's so-called war on terrorism, the government has been charging full-throttle into another war -- a war on liberty.  Drawing on its almost limitless technological arsenal, the government surreptitiously tracks and spies on o...

August 4, 2011

The Budget Control Act Of 2011 Violates Constitutional Order

In a Constitutional Republic of the sort that we thought we had, the process by which laws are made is at least as important as the laws that are enacted.  Our Constitution prescribes that law-making process in some detail, but those who voted f...