American lawyer and jurist (1939–2025)
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online focuses on 10 characteristics of the U.S. Supreme Court that could be considered as important as “commandments.” 1) Right to Left.…
That’s how Mike Rappaport summarizes Neil Gorsuch’s first year at the Supreme Court: It has now been almost a year since Neil Gorsuch was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice. Based on…
George Leef devotes his latest Forbes column to the next opening on the nation’s highest court. Before long, there will be some vacancies on the Supreme Court. Americans who care…
If he’s really a clever wimp, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts will leave us with plenty of questions about the Supreme Court’s next term. The latest Bloomberg Businessweek highlights some…
Iowahawk has somehow gotten his hands on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s menudo recipe: I believe jurisprudence, like cooking, requires many ingredients to make a satisfying meal. In Latina culture…
Clint Bolick, director of the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, provides this analysis of Sotomayor’s record. Sotomayor not a shift to the left compared to Souter by…
This morning, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals court judge, to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic to…
The AP story about the impending retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter includes an extended passage about the “aggressively conservative views” of Justice Antonin Scalia. Note as well how…
Check out the artwork in the office of the judge who just ruled against lethal injections in Ohio: Che Guevara and Barack Obama. Hmmm. Obama lovers sure seem to have…
Louisville, Ky.’s lefty mayor Jerry Abramson sums up the liberal/progressive feeling about laws and constitutions after a smoking ban was ruled unconstitutional by the Kentucky Supreme Court: “We’ve come too…
If you ever wondered what it would be like to make a movie, I can’t help you. If you ever wondered what it would be like to finance a movie,…
According to The People’s Cube, Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter, inspired by Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to visit various dictators, wants to get into the foreign policy act: “If…