Jack Phillips hit the news again last week. This time, conservatives’ favorite baker got slammed by a Colorado state appeals court for refusing, for religious reasons, to bake a transition cake for a man celebrating his alleged transition to a…
The full title of Erwin Chemerinsky’s book says it all: Worse Than Nothing — The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School, tells readers that the doctrine of constitutional interpretation now favored by a majority of…
As readers of this space know, former President Donald J. Trump is suing CNN for defamation. Trump claims in his suit that CNN defamed him by repeatedly likening him to Hitler and, in particular, by claiming that his complaints about…
Like a dog returning to its own vomit, the supercilious elites of our so-called international community maintain a rather curious fixation. Like clockwork, these elites always find a way of singling out for opprobrium one tiny nation-state that is no…
In a previous article in these pages, I nominated Clinton v. City of New York as “one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.” In that 1998 case, the Supreme Court held unconstitutional the line-item veto, which had allowed…
To what extent must an employer accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs or practices? As of January 13, that religious liberty question will be taken up by the Supreme Court, which will consider Groff v. DeJoy in its spring term. The case addresses…
Rather than granting or denying cert to a case involving a North Carolina charter school, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday sent the case to the Biden administration for further consideration. In a one-sentence directive, the court asked the U.S. solicitor…
Conservatives won a nice court victory last week. Just before Christmas it was reported that the soccer player Kiersten Hening won the first stage of a case against her former Virginia Tech coach, who allegedly benched her for refusing to…
A U.S. appeals court upheld last Friday a Florida school board policy that required students to use bathrooms consistent with their biological sex. By a 7–4 vote, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a policy put in…
The Worst Supreme Court Decisions in History is the title of a new book I am writing. It begins by identifying what makes a Supreme Court decision bad, an issue on which reasonable people can disagree. For me, the most…