In the hubbub over the Dobbs case overruling Roe v. Wade, many have overlooked the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA. The case was part of a larger project by legal theorists on the right to cut back…

Whatever else it was, the Dobbs decision was a great day for history. A substantial part of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion put to rest the claim that abortion had ever been a “right,” let alone one deeply rooted in our…

In one of the most significant Supreme Court terms in memory, in which big wins came down on gun rights and abortion and the environment, conservatives also claimed convincing victories in the three big religious liberty cases that were on…

We are a couple weeks into the post-Dobbs world, and chaos has yet to envelop the land. A new Dark Age has not descended across America. The U.S. has not been transformed into The Handmaid’s Tale or similarly imagined progressive…

The media is trying to mau-mau Republicans into a selective and unprincipled originalism, and it appears to be working. After the collapse of Roe v. Wade, many Republican pols signaled that they had no interest in overturning other nakedly unconstitutional…

This past week and a half has been truly remarkable. From a conservative perspective, and a legal conservative perspective more specifically, there has not been a condensed period of such consistent, meaningful winning in my entire adult lifetime. The Supreme…

America started anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as soon as Justice Samuel Alito’s draft was leaked in early May. Public radio and media heavies sounded the tocsin for weeks in advance, but still had…

The angry children of the Roe generation — those who have been born — spill into the streets for their summer 2022 Days of Rage. They lash out at Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and…

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Washington state high school football coach had his First Amendment rights violated when he was fired for leading a prayer at midfield after football games in which he coached were finished. Joseph Kennedy,…

A federal appeals court ruled last week that a charter school in North Carolina could not require girls to wear skirts in compliance with the school’s dress code. By a 10-6 vote, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that…