Reason Taking Children: A History of American Terror, by Laura Briggs, University of California Press, 256 pages, $24.95 America exploded with indignation in 2018, when the Trump administration initiated mass separations …
A spokesman for the Milton Keynes town council in England has apologized after a staff member of the Crownhill Crematorium reprimanded a man who moved his socially distanced chair to …
Class 15: Slavery Slavery, Citizenship, and the Due Process of Law (773-775) Dred Scott v. Sandford (775-799) Note (806-808) The Adoption of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment (811-816) Prop2 Class …
Last week featured a surprisingly taciturn Vice Presidential debate that was notable more for what the candidates didn’t say than what they did. But make no mistake: Health care, the …
The spectacle of Supreme Court confirmation hearing is upon us once again. In theory, such hearings could serve a useful purpose, as Adam White explains in the Washington Post. Alas, …
Judge Barrett, in a 2013 Texas Law Review article defending what you call the Supreme Court’s “weak presumption of stare decisis in constitutional cases,” you wrote the following: Justifying an initial …
During Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing today, several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee worried that the 7th Circuit judge would vote to overturn the Patient Protection …
Canney v. State (Fla. Ct. App. 1973), in which Robert Benjamin Canney was convicted of “resisting an officer with violence” when he was being arrested for “profane, vulgar or indecent …
A trio of epidemiologists released a public letter last week rebuking the lockdown-focused approach to combating COVID-19. Their alternative: a model called Focused Protection, outlined in their Great Barrington Declaration, …
Even as the world wrestles with a pandemic and overbearing public health measures, some legislative bodies are taking the opportunity to tighten the screws on speech they don’t like. Several …