The recent deportation of Tren de Aragua terrorists back to El Salvador sparked a greater controversy about judicial overreach, judicial activism, and executive power. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on this episode of The Spectacle Podcast as they inquire into the judicial branch…
It’s unlikely that many Americans sat down with a second cup of coffee and listened to last Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Fischer v. United States. Nonetheless, it was an edifying tutorial on how the Department of…
The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed explicit racism in college admissions on Thursday. This naturally outraged those so obsessed with outlawing explicit racism in college admissions that they instituted it. The dissent defends, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the Students…
Last week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court concerning the Biden administration’s student-loan forgiveness plan predictably focused on arcane legal theories such as the “major questions doctrine.” Relatively little time was devoted to the profoundly inequitable structure of the program….
Last May’s leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization severely damaged the high court’s ability to perform its essential function: that of debating and deciding — in secret — the most important legal…
Two Harvard Law School professors, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, recently published a book with the intriguing title Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. Far from “redeeming” anything, their book actually recounts why administrative law in general and the…
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…
Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court just after noon on Thursday, immediately following Justice Stephen Breyer’s resignation taking effect. In a small, live-streamed ceremony located in the Supreme Court’s West Conference Room,…
Over the weekend, Jed Babbin was exactly correct in his characterization of the leak, quite possibly by a Sonia Sotomayor law clerk named Amit Jain if the speculation is correct, of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case which…
