American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)
Jim Geraghty writes for National Review Online about one person associated with the US Supreme Court who ought to retire. [A]t the court, the decision that I found most surprising…
Sarah Parshall Perry writes for National Review Online about one legal group’s malign influence over the profession. The American Bar Association’s monopoly over the accreditation of U.S. law schools has…
In commemoration, I’m reposting something I wtote about Justice Scalia at the time of his death. The title was “We shall not look upon his like again.” If constitutional government…
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog assesses the latest fallout related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Former Harvard President and leading Democratic Party intellectual Larry Summers has announced that he…
Ramesh Ponnuru recently spoke about the merits of originalism. It turns out that it is not beyond human wit to apply that understanding to novel situations that arise even after…
Natan Ehrenreich writes for National Review Online about the absence of a consistent legal philosophy among left-of-center legal analysts. … [I]t is apparent even to non-lawyers that much of the…
David Sivak writes for the Washington Examiner about one Democratic senator’s important role in debates about the U.S. Supreme Court’s future. Senate Democrats have rebuffed the Left’s attempts to give…
Jeffrey Blehar of National Review Online ponders former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support of term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices. If there’s anyone who should be sympathetic to…
Andrea Widburg writes for the American Thinker about one source of “supreme” concern on the progressive left. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is recognized for three things: (1) She was…
The U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to regulate congressional redistricting There are different interpretations of how to define “state legislature” No matter which interpretation the U.S. Supreme Court…
Tim Young writes at American Greatness about problems linked to media outlets’ “fact checks.” When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020 and President Trump began moving…
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon takes aim at a new book promoting America’s most famous COVID scold. Sometimes a book’s mere existence has an eminently greater cultural significance than…