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The Four
Lost in the hubbub over Chief Justice John Roberts’ Obamacare reversal was the role played by the four liberal justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer. (The...
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Stealing pays?
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 2006 federal law making it a crime for people to falsely claim to have earned a military medal. The six-justice majority in the case of United States...
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Doing the right thing
Attorney General George C. Jepsen will seek a reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court of an absurd ruling by a federal appeals court panel, which held that state union workers who were laid off by...
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What are you talking about, Joe?
Famously, George W. Bush prevailed in the 2000 presidential election when he secured Florida’s 25 electoral votes after more than a month of recounts. However, Democrats have long argued that if the...
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Racial politics
1812 Cartoon illustrates the original gerrymander, engineered by Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry. Something for Waterbury, which is preparing to figure out how to break the city into five districts...
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Speed bump for regulators
Well, here’s a bit of good news amid the torrent of bad news. The U.S. Supreme Court will provide a (hopefully) sober reconsideration of the environmental extremism revealed by the latest round of...
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Kelo at 10
Ten years ago today (Wednesday), the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Kelo v. City of New London, one of the worst decisions we’ve seen in modern times — certainly worse than the Citizens United...
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Unasked question
I am reminded of a column George Will wrote 10 years ago, in which he pointed out the steep decline in the percentage of adults who smoked cigarettes was destined to have the unfortunate unintended...
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Missing Scalia
The mysterious and troubling death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — explain to me again why no autopsy was considered necessary? — is being felt predictably. Headline: Scalia dead;...
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Win for the Sisters
I haven’t followed Zubik v. Burwell (aka the Little Sisters of the Poor case) as closely as I should have, perhaps because I couldn’t imagine a court ordering the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for...
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