Scalia and Ginsburg, Best Friends Forever
The two Supreme Court justices were civil colleagues on the bench and good friends away from it.
The two Supreme Court justices were civil colleagues on the bench and good friends away from it.
The 7th Circuit judge’s track record suggests she would frequently be a friend of civil liberties.
"Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit."
Is the Rule of Law a Law of Rules or a Law of Law? Some conservatives seem to prefer the former. Should they?
What’s worse for the left, a conservative originalist or a conservative living constitutionalist?
The feds may commandeer local police into administering neither federal gun control nor federal immigration policy.
His obsession with Justice Scalia's aside in Heller about "weapons...most useful in military service" ignores Scalia writing of weapons "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes."
Featuring the Solicitor General of the United States, Judge Amy Barrett, many others, and ... me.
For civil libertarians, the newest Supreme Court justice is better than the nominee who never got a hearing.
An issue the Supreme Court candidate should address.
It's Trump vs. Scalia when cities offer sanctuary to immigrants.
President-elect Donald Trump reignites a long-settled argument.
The justice Trump admires twice voted to overturn criminal penalties for flag burning, which Clinton later tried to reinstate.
Some politicians are dishonest. But it's far healthier for democracy if the voters get to sort that out in elections.
Libertarian legal superstar Randy Barnett challenges conservative judicial orthodoxy.
The mixed legacy of the late Supreme Court justice
The justice got an unfair rap from liberals that he was an anti-immigrant bigot.
SCOTUS seems evenly divided on a drug search arising from an illegal stop.
Will Obama go for a fight that will mobilize the Democratic base, or choose a candidate who has some distantly plausible chance of confirmation?
Cases involving drug prohibition reveal the late justice's fickle fidelity to the Fourth Amendment and federalism.
Abortion, not religion per se, is the thing people care about most when it comes to the religious views of justices.
The late justice left unresolved the constitutionality of "assault weapon" bans and restrictions on carrying guns in public.
Drug cases show the late justice's fickle fidelity to the Fourth Amendment and federalism.
What he really wants is a justice that will agree with what he believes the law should be.
Law students jokingly called him the pope of originalism, a phrase he loved.
Dems & Reps both have a good argument in the fight over who should pick the next Supreme Court member. Sadly, the argument is that both sides are sacks of shit.
What will happen to gun rights if a Democrat picks his replacement?
The Supreme Court Justice's opinions often favored the accused-because their rights were in the Constitution.
The late Supreme Court justice was inaccurately described as "authoritarian."
Libertarians disagreed with Scalia on many issues, but they also have to give him credit.
The late Supreme Court justice's mixed legacy on liberty and the Constitution
President says he's going to try anyway.
The Supreme Court justice was found dead today of apparent natural causes.
The Supreme Court hears Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
Justice Thomas faults his colleagues for "relegating the Second Amendment to a second-class right."
Families Against Mandatory Minimum's Kevin Ring makes the case for even more wide-ranging and far-reaching sentencing reform.
Trump's support for Kelo v. City of New London reveals his fundamentally unconstitutional support for eminent domain abuse.
The Gray Lady misleads its readers about the conservative Supreme Court justice.
A reply to National Review's Ed Whelan.
Wants to treat a law passed in 1964 as though it also covers sexual orientation
Like Scalia, Thomas sides with the ersatz "liberty" of the People (a collectivist notion) against the real liberty of the several persons.
In Scalia's view, we have only the liberties mentioned in the Constitution.
If you think self government means each person is free to govern himself or herself and that the protection of rights and equality under the law serve that end-Scalia says you're wrong.
The chief justice saves Obamacare by rewriting the law.