A lot turns on words. In Hebrew, today and millennia ago when the Bible was written, the word mostly used for slavery is ‘avdut. From that same root come words used to mean work, such as people do through their…
The independent judiciary established by our Constitution has inspired the world. Even British law, which developed and preserved constitutional liberties, and whose firm sense of political rights inspired the American Founders, has only in the last two decades undertaken to…
It’s the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even argue…
Is there no end to the mendacity? That is my first thought when I see the ad blitz for the campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment before Ohio voters in a special August vote. The ad claims gravely that the…
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…
President Joe Biden’s swap of a birdbrained basketball celebrity who refused to come out of the locker room for the playing of the national anthem — whom, risibly, he called “the best of America” — for the world’s most notorious,…
The House of Representatives’ struggle to elect a speaker has been repeatedly defined as “chaotic” by mainstream media outlets. Apparently, deliberation and debate are signs of disorder and are not to be desired in our society. While the phrase “threat…
Criticisms of originalism are nothing new. The frequency and intensity of originalism’s critics, however, have multiplied since the latest blockbuster Supreme Court decisions on gun rights and abortion. Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has added another salvo in his new…
On Monday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered approximately 140 51-star American flags to be flown along Pennsylvania Avenue for Flag Day in support of statehood for the District of Columbia. Bowser’s directive is a violation of the U.S. Flag…
