The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in Monday with another example of its divided wisdom on abortion, refusing by a single vote to uphold a Louisiana law seen as making access to abortion unconstitutionally difficult. Unconstitutionally difficult? What about less likely…
Sigmund Freud dies and goes to Heaven, where he’s met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter. “Dr. Freud, thank goodness you’ve come! We have a crisis and need your professional help!” “How so?” asks Freud. “It’s God. He’s having…
The Wednesday Wall Street Journal takes Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to task, and deservedly so, for his incredibly living-constitution opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County. In the jaw-dropping opinion Gorsuch wrote, one which could have been dictated by any one…
Washington Unlike President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tends to be precise in his language. So when Schumer stood before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and called out two justices by threatening they would “pay a price”…
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” So, instantly infamously,…
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear another constitutional challenge to Obamacare. The court’s latest rendezvous with the “Affordable Care Act” became all but inevitable in late 2018 when U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled, in Texas v. United States,…
Writing in the Wall Street Journal on February 12, Max Raskin argued, The bar for investigating political opponents should be high, especially when offenses are selectively enforced or derivative of the investigation. Many crimes — marijuana possession, jaywalking — are…
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier. — Rudyard Kipling, “The…
Friday’s Senate vote rejecting Democrats’ demands to call witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial makes the president’s acquittal inevitable. But for the Senate bloviators’ desire to make more pointless speeches, the acquittal — which is scheduled for Wednesday — would…
