Why Gorsuch Should Remain Reticent on Roe
For Neil Gorsuch to reveal his mind about Roe v Wade would mark him as strikingly imprudent & beyond the mainstream.
In re the Case of Edith Jones
The ethics apparatus of the United States judiciary moves slowly. It seems also to move truly. It did both on February 19, when it cleared Judge Edith Jones of all ...
Marriage Law: The ‘Infertility Objection’
Since the Supreme Court decided U.S. v. Windsor in June of last year, about 20 courts have struck down state laws limiting marriage to unions of a man and a ...
Fact-Checking Harry Reid
The gloves are off over the Hobby Lobby decision. Come to think of it, they came off in the Hobby Lobby decision. The principal dissent by Justice Ginsburg was more than ...
Eric Holder and the Spirit of Windsor
On Monday last Eric Holder instructed all DOJ employees to “ensur[e] equal treatment for same-sex married couples.” The attorney general wrapped his directive in the “Supreme Court’s historic decision in ...
Representative Weber in Defense of Marriage
Earlier today Representative Randy Weber (R., Texas) introduced the State Defense of Marriage Act (HR 3829). It is the necessary and entirely sound response of Congress to the Supreme Court’s ...
Notre Dame’s Mandate
Earlier today a panel of the Seventh Circuit (composed of Judges Posner, Flaum, and Hamilton) denied Notre Dame’s emergency motion for a stay pending its appeal of District Judge Simon’s ...
‘It Goes without Saying’?
Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for the Obama administration. That afternoon Brooklyn federal judge Brian Cogan enjoined enforcement of the HHS “contraception” mandate against a host of Catholic ...
A Disturbing Story About Judge Edith Jones
Yesterday’s New York Times ran a disturbing story about a speech that Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones gave to the Penn Law School Federalist Society in February. Times writer Ethan ...