by Henry Oliner | Jul 6, 2019 | Law
The Supreme Court has become a center of electoral politics and was a strong consideration for many voters in the Midwest who switched for Trump. While voters are concerned about abortion rights and Second Amendment rights, the current court was more concerned about...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 28, 2018 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” – Margaret Thatcher If a Senator wishes to vote against a judicial nominee there is no...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 16, 2018 | Law, Philosophy, Politics
From Daniel Henninger at The Wall Street Journal, Kavanaugh and the Culture Wars : (paywall) It would be good for the country’s stability if a Kavanaugh Court disincentivized the left from using the courts to push the far edges of the social envelope. This is not...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 29, 2018 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
From Jonah Goldberg at National Review in ‘Living Constitution’ Faces a Mercy Killing How did we get here? Two tracks converged to deliver us this dysfunction. The first is narrowly political. The Democrats, confident that they were on the right side of history,...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 5, 2017 | Law
Another gem from Kevin Williamson, A National State of Non-Emergency in National Review: What people remember of that episode is Senator Edward Kennedy’s infamous speech describing “Robert Bork’s America,” “a land in which women would be forced into back-alley...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 1, 2017 | Law
Another gem from Kevin Williamson, A National State of Non-Emergency in National Review: But the rules of the game are not all there is to the game. What in another context might be called “sportsmanship” is in politics a question of prudence and even of patriotism,...
