It now appears that a state judge, who engaged in wrongful conduct as a prosecutor that led to the imprisonment of an innocent man for over 20 years, will be prosecuted. If he is guilty, as it seems, I …
The IRS stories keep piling up, on top of the other Obama Administration curiosities. Among all the worthy reading, one recent NY Times article remains the most revealing of the many that might be read. See as well my previous …
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has a review of the new Star Trek film. Ilya liked the action in the movie, but believed that the movie did not take on the serious questions about the future that …
For the bulk of the last generation, a conjunction of conservative legislatures and liberal courts enabled judicial conservatives to avoid a theoretical tension it is now time to confront: that between original intent and judicial restraint.
The tension was alleviated …
As many readers know, the Solicitor General’s Office has sought cert in the Noel Canning Recess Appointments case. Solicitor General briefs are supposed to be the best of the best, but in reviewing the brief I have found a problem: …
Thanks to the vast increase in human productivity over the last few decades economic crises are less easy to discern than they once were. Spain, for example, has rates of unemployment that equal or exceed those of the great Depression …
Another U.S. Circuit Court has held that President Obama’s recess appointment to the NLRB was unconstitutional. The Third Circuit in NLRB v. New Vista Nusing and Rehabilitation followed the decision of the D.C. Circuit in the Noel Canning case to …
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It was March 27, 1809, three weeks into his …
The 59th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education should recall what that great decision did not do—overturn the racial segregation precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Only by revisiting Justice Harlan’s classic dissent would segregation and Jim Crow …
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