After two years of tracking Donald’s loathsome behavior, I’ve counted hundreds of instances of moral corruption by Donald and his Administration.
Donald’s many moral failings have infected his entire Administration
Republicans’ abandonment of conservatism
The Republican leadership, and far too many of the party faithful, have abandoned conservatism in favor of radicalism
American vs. unAmerican values, according to the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution
There is a lot of Fourth Amendment case law regarding unreasonable search and seizure. Today’s main issues are searches of electronics at the border and airport security.
Gorsuch should be the Democrats’ deserved pound of flesh
If I was a US Senator, here’s what I would do about the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Democrats filibustering his vote, and the possibility of rule changes. First, […]
American vs. unAmerican values, according to the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
When it comes to the Second Amendment, only the extreme positions of banning all firearms or allowing unrestricted access to all firearms are unAmerican.
The war over words
Politicians have always sought the power to control the meaning of language. But now this open warfare has raced past reprehensible to dangerous for democracy. In the vicious descent to American unexceptionalism […]
The Slants (and the Redskins): what’s in (an offensive) name?
SCOTUS takes on the First Amendment case of The Slants, a band crying foul over a U.S. patent office refusal to trademark its name by Amber Healy The Supreme Court of the […]
In wake of #SCOTUSnom, political warfare beckons. We’ll all be losers in the end.
If your taste in politics runs toward the hardball, then you’re about to be sated. President Obama today nominated the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]
Elonis vs US: SCotUS should have provided guidance to lower courts
by Carole McNall I rarely agree with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. But in his dissent in Elonis v. U.S., decided June 1, I found this pair of lines that had me […]
A poll says we’re fed up with big money in politics, but will it end?
From a New York Times story this week: Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other […]
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