1. Do you believe that the Supreme Court correctly struck down state bans on gay marriage this year in Obergefell v. Hodges? Obergefell has sparked such criticism among conservatives not just because of its position on gay marriage. The decision illustrates much that is wrong with the modern Supreme Court, which has arrogated to itself […]
When Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to the next president, he will be flanked by three, and almost four, octogenarians: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83), Antonin Scalia (80), Anthony Kennedy (80), and Stephen Breyer (77). The next president will likely have the opportunity to appoint a replacement for one, two, three, […]
In the post-civil rights era of the last half-century, a number of black triumphalist slogans and movements have come and gone. “Black is beautiful” was an informal self-help attitude that sought to encourage blacks not to emulate so-called arbitrary constructs of white majority aesthetics, but instead to rediscover a natural black essence — from Afros […]
The judiciary has been described as the least dangerous branch. But that isn’t true. The Supreme Court has become a continuing constitutional convention, in which just five votes often turns the Constitution inside out. The latest Supreme Court term was seen as a shift to the left. These decisions set off a flurry of promises […]
Within the space of just 48 hours, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law; that straightforward statutory words may be twisted to mean the opposite of what they say; that discrimination — heretofore, the textbook example of a willful act — can be committed unconsciously, thereby supplanting our constitutional […]