On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a man with a significant criminal record including a five-year sentence for an armed home invasion, entered a convenience store in downtown Minneapolis and made a purchase. The clerk at Cup Foods called…
In an 8–1 decision published last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are persons, which gives parents the ability to sue for wrongful death if the embryos are destroyed. The decision has potential…
The ongoing campaign by progressive activists to deny former President Trump a place on state ballots received yet another serious setback late Friday. After a weeklong bench trial, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace issued a 102-page opinion in Anderson…
To save America, first save the court system. Because it may be the last institution in the country doing its job — repelling progressive insanity. Four sound, sage judgments last Friday battered the Left all the way up from a…
Jephthah is described by the biblical Book of Judges as a somewhat disreputable character. Certainly, his birth was disreputable, but it was hardly his fault that his father’s liaison with a prostitute produced him as its fruit. Neither was it…
In 2020, a small group of Montana minors filed a lawsuit to force Montana officials to consider climate change when they approve fossil fuel projects. Their lawsuit, Held v. Montana, argued that children are “uniquely vulnerable” to climate change; hence…
Many Israelis have once again taken to mass protests in the streets, both in the lead-up to and in the aftermath of the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government’s successful passing on Monday of one tiny sliver of the broader judicial reforms that…
On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her…
John Thomas Scopes was your quintessential math and science teacher of the 1920s. He had round glasses and a serious demeanor and wore a skimmer hat, sometimes perched rakishly on one side of his head. He wasn’t necessarily an amazing…
