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Constitutional Opinions
by | Mar 14, 2024

February 2024 was not a good month for President Joe Biden. It began with special counsel Robert Hur’s mortifying report and ended with assessments like that of Danielle Pletka, who echoed various congressional comments about the president’s disconcerting mental abilities: “[They tell]…

by | Mar 5, 2024

Trump v. Anderson has been decided by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on the question of whether the Supreme Court of Colorado erred in requiring GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump to be excluded from the primary ballot. The Supreme Court,…

by | Mar 1, 2024

One of the more underappreciated recent trends in American law and politics, obscured by a few high-profile conservative victories at the Supreme Court and thus noticed by few other than dyed-in-the-wool legal conservatives, is that former President Donald Trump’s three…

by | Feb 22, 2024

Leftists have spent much of the past week up in arms about a ruling last Friday from the Alabama Supreme Court. At first blush, it is curious that a state supreme court case would engender so much vitriol and bellyaching….

by | Jan 19, 2024

Beleaguered mayors of blue cities might get some relief from the homelessness problems that nettle their cities. If they do, it will come from conservatives. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a court decision from Oregon that…

by | Jan 16, 2024

The 7.5 earthquake and resulting tsunami that shook Japan on New Year’s Day set the stage as the faultless metaphor that will reverberate throughout 2024 and beyond. With the impending presidential election aside, the tremors of improbability arrived a month…

by | Dec 27, 2023

The 4–3 decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify former President Donald J. Trump from the Republican primary ballot for “inciting” an “insurrection” on Jan. 6 has provoked a great deal of commentary. Most is critical on both policy…

by | Dec 21, 2023

The decision this week by the Colorado state Supreme Court to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot(s) — a ruling that is likely to be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States — has brought…

by | Dec 20, 2023

Suppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now…

by | Dec 15, 2023

Alarmism can have many parents. Sometimes, it is conceived by perceptive insight wed to a legitimate concern. Other times, it is a child bred by the marriage of ignorance and bias.  Recently, the media has sounded an alarm that a…

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