3 Questions To Ask Yourself While Watching the Kavanaugh/Ford Hearings Today
It's a given that many senators are acting in bad faith. But what about the rest of us?
It's a given that many senators are acting in bad faith. But what about the rest of us?
Plus: Is postmodernism bad?
Unlike most of us, he's in a position to do something about it.
The irony is that she's protesting authoritarian police behavior.
The allegations were released on Twitter this morning by lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is asking for an FBI investigation.
The debate over the sexual assault accusations against Brett Kavanaugh is a striking example of partisan bias at work.
Here's the full Fox News interview with the SCOTUS nominee and his wife Ashley.
Reason's editors discuss the latest Brett Kavanaugh revelations, Rod Rosentein's fate, and how to recover basic norms of political discourse.
Claim that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a Yale party 35 years ago is less convincing than Ford's alleged rape, but suggests a pattern.
Leftist partisans say he's guilty, conservative partisans are convinced he's innocent. How convenient.
My amicus brief with Stephen Sachs in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt
Understanding what happens next if the Kavanaugh nomination falls apart.
Florida prisons completely ban Prison Legal News magazine. Now the publication is asking the Supreme Court to "vindicate the First Amendment."
Reason's editors debate whether a single-source allegation from 35 years ago should be enough to derail a Supreme Court pick.
It includes contributions by a variety of legal scholars and commentators, including myself.
The situation is a mess-and it's Dianne Feinstein's fault-but the public needs to take this accusation seriously.
Anonymous officials claim the accusation involves a high school sexual misconduct case.
"If you can't debate hard issues honestly, with honor, with integrity, how do we keep a civil society?" Thomas said.
The Supreme Court nominee talks warrantless government surveillance with Sen. Patrick Leahy.
Clinton runs with a Kamala Harris whopper that's already been debunked.
This time the Libertarian Party seems to be hurting the Democrat, who's trying to run out the clock on confirming Brett Kavanaugh.
"Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week." Except he didn't.
Harris and other Democrats distorted Kavanaugh's comments on birth control to portray him as a religious extremist.
Critiquing an ex-president's warnings about anti-media rhetoric, non-voting, and unelected bureaucrats
Fun fact: All laws give government control of the decisions that everybody of any gender can do with their bodies.
Pretty much what everyone expected. Unfortunately.
A revealing exchange between the SCOTUS nominee and the Republican senator.
The state pays (and generously) to avoid the pending cert. petition in Allah v. Milling
While all eyes focused on the Kavanaugh hearings (and an "anonymous" op-ed), a court heard argument in the latest ObamaCare challenge.
SCOTUS scholar Damon Root says Trump's nominee still hasn't answered pressing questions about government snooping and unchecked executive power.
The senator is miffed that the SCOTUS nominee thinks people have a right to own the guns she wants to ban.
Booker's totally not running for president or anything.
The Supreme Court nominee recites precedent instead of explaining his views.
An important new book by my colleague Justin Driver, which should be of interest of all who follow constitutional law
A great set of colloquies on originalism, the Federalist, and human imperfection.
Parents of school shooting victims lash out over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but the more troubling responses are from U.S. senators.
"Justice Kennedy established a legacy of liberty for ourselves and our posterity."
"A lot of people are concerned about this administration."
"Government is about power. Government is not just another word for things we do together," said Sasse.
Claims that Kavanaugh is outside the legal "mainstream" are misguided, and mostly just reflect growing partisan polarization over legal issues. The real danger is not that we will have non-mainstream Supreme Court justices, but that some mainstream ideas are badly wrong.
Before demanding censure or intervention, take a step back from the Twitter machine and ask yourself whether anyone really cares about this stuff.
This week's SCOTUS confirmation hearings are going to be a brawl.
Judge Kavanaugh will mostly advance freedom, says Cato's Ilya Shapiro.
What the Senate Judiciary Committee should ask the Supreme Court nominee.
Of course, Gorsuch had his share of clashes with the liberal bloc too.
The Post has a symposium in which a a variety of legal commentators (myself included) discuss what they consider to be Judge Kavanaugh's most important opinions.
The Slants speak with Reason a year after winning the right to use their own name.