Category: U. S. Constitution
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“The People are Supreme”
Thus read a protester's placard. Now that is rich! The implication is that in a democracy the people decide, not nine black-robed elitists, when the whole point of overturning Roe v. Wade is to return the question of the legality of abortion to the states where — wait for it – the people will decide.
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The Manipulative Rhetoric of Garrett Epps
Keith Burgess-Jackson on a law professor gone amok: Two years ago this past month, law professor Garrett Epps published a short essay entitled “Common-Good Constitutionalism Is an Idea as Dangerous as They Come” in a high-brow literary magazine, The Atlantic. That he published his essay in this organ rather than, say, a law review suggests that…
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To Provoke a Pre-Emptive Crap Storm?
Is that why it was leaked? ……………………… A correspondent replies: Yes, Bill, I believe so. Someone in Sotomayor's or Kagan's office. It was a call to action. They weren't going to let their side be blindsided. The leaker will either be protected or, if caught, then lionized. For them, the end of Roe is the end of…
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Polylogism and Leftist Racism
Anthony Flood sends us to Charles Burris, Polylogism — The Root of America's Divisiveness, Decline and Destruction. History is repeating itself before our eyes. The widespread controversy surrounding President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a “black woman” recalls the editorial in The Washington Times, “A Judge Too Far,” concerning President Obama’s earlier…
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Free Speech and the First Amendment
The free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the citizen's right to free expression from infringement by the government, not from infringement by any old entity. My home is my castle; you have no First Amendment rights here, or at my cyber-castle, my weblog. So it is no violation…
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The Right to an Opinion
The right to express an opinion does not absolve one of the obligation to do one's level best to form correct opinions. Note however that the legal (and moral) right to free speech guaranteed to the American citizen by the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution remains even if one shirks one's moral (but…
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What the 2020 Election is About
"More than anything, this election is about President Trump." (Mara Liasson, NPR, 2/2/2020) Not so! The election is a key engagement in the battle for the soul of America. It is not so much about Trump as it is about the defense of our constitutional republic. The Democrat party, in the control of the hard…
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A Bad Argument Against Originalism Refuted
This canard is often repeated: "We need a living constitution to govern a modern society." In response, Neil Gorsuch distinguishes between MEANING and APPLICATION. The original meaning of the Constitution remains fixed; it is the range of applications that changes. Speech remains protected despite the fact that at the time of the founding electronic means…
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The Grave Danger to the Republic of ‘Red Flag’ Laws
Destructive Democrats now label the National Rifle Association a 'domestic terror organization.' Mind-mannered Mike of Mesa is a member and receives their publications. His mail man, though, is a flaming lefty. The mail man reports Mike to the government as a domestic terrorist on the ground that anyone who is a member of a terrorist organization…
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Susan Collins (R-Maine), Profile in Courage
Here is the full text of Senator Collins' speech before the U. S. Senate. (HT: Bill Keezer) The analog of military valor in civilian life is called civil courage. Senator Collins has it. My impression is that some Republicans are finally learning from President Trump how to fight, as witness Senator Lindsey Graham's finest moment.
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Vote. Confirm.
A powerful statement by Malcolm Pollack, at once both personal and objective. I recommend in particular the penultimate paragraph: We who came of age in the latter half of the twentieth century have lived our whole lives in such ease and peace and prosperity that we have mostly forgotten, I think, how rare, and how…
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It’s a War: The Democrats’ Behavior Proves It
Let's begin with a very simple distinction between the behavior one would rightly demand of a judge who was adjudicating a dispute between two parties, and the behavior of a citizen defending himself against very serious but groundless accusations. From a judge one expects and demands impartiality. The demand is reasonable and can be met…
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Dennis Prager: The Charges Against Kavanaugh Should be Ignored
This piece by Dennis Prager is sure to outrage the Left. Prager takes a step back and uncovers an assumption that almost everyone else is making. The assumption is that IF the young Kavanaugh had groped Dr. Ford in the manner she describes, THEN that would be good grounds for non-confirmation. But is the assumption…
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Kavanaugh is in Like Flynn
And what little credibility the Dems had left is out like Stout. (G. F. Stout?) Here: Opponents of Kavanaugh lost the fight when they lost their marbles. His foes on the Senate Judiciary Committee and allied activists ensured that opponents to the nomination appear to be a pack of wild cranks. [. . .] Not…