It’s been nearly 20 years since the death of Randy California and he still can’t catch a break. Last week, a jury in Los Angeles rejected a suit brought on behalf of California’s estate two years ago seeking damages from…
An affirmative action Supreme Court on Thursday upheld affirmative action at public universities. Shocker. Justice Anthony Kennedy dubbed “student body diversity” at the University of Texas as “central to its identity and educational mission,” and noted evidence the university advanced…
A federal jury has concluded that Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did not lift the opening guitar riff on “Stairway to Heaven” from the instrumental “Taurus” by the ’60’s psychedelic group Spirit. “Taurus” was recorded nearly four years…
Federal government contracting is big business, really big. Last year close to half a trillion of your tax dollars were awarded to the private sector to perform services for the government in defense, energy, health, veterans affairs, homeland security, and…
Former Attorney General Eric Holder has come out against proposals in Chicago and New Jersey to require fingerprint background checks of drivers for ride-hailing platforms such as Uber and Lyft. Why would President Obama’s onetime top lawman come out against…
Jeff Lord begins his latest salvo against Judge Gonzalo Curiel in this manner: So. There is Donald Trump, now the GOP nominee in waiting, making the obvious point. The point? That the judge in the Trump University trial is biased…
I am a criminal. I regularly break the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At least once a month, I drive across the border to New Jersey, pull into the parking lot at Joe Canal’s Discount Liquor in Lawrenceville, go…
It looks like Jeff Lord got Donald Trump’s marching orders about going after Judge Gonzalo Curiel with a full frontal assault. However, nothing in Jeff’s 1,500-word piece alters the fact that Donald Trump called Judge Curiel “a Mexican” (he was…
Judge Gonzalo Curiel told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was a member of the National Hispanic Bar Association. Hat tip here to the Conservative Tree House and attorney Mark Pulliam. The Tree House reports this press release from the…
The Supreme Court recently stepped back from its campaign to impose its political preferences on the states. In Evenwel v. Abbott, the justices held while the U.S. Constitution requires states to apportion their legislatures solely by population, the Constitution does…
