by Henry Oliner | Nov 23, 2021 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
From, Gerard Baker at The Wall Street Journal, Kyle Rittenhouse and the Left’s Terrifying Assault on Due Process: In the minds of the ranting radicals of the Squad or MSNBC, dimly repeated by the president, these so-called rights—presumption of innocence, due process,...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 30, 2021 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
From The Wall Street Journal, The Temptation of the ‘Common Good’ by David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman: But originalism and textualism defer to the morality wrought in the law by those who enacted it. The duty of a judge in a system of self-government is to...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2020 | Law
from David French in the weekend Review section of the WSJ, Why We Fight So Ferociously Over the Court: What is to be done? There’s no easy answer, and we certainly can’t forsake judicial review. It is the necessary implication of placing “the judicial power of the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 12, 2019 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
From A Conversation with Justice Neil Gorsuch by Charles Cooke in National Review: (assorted excerpts) Justice Gorsuch’s animating conviction is that judges are there to understand and to enforce the Constitution as it was understood at the time of ratification,...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2019 | Law, Politics, Progressivism
from Conrad Black: Why Donald Trump will win big in 2020 A century after the U.S. Civil War, which at the cost of 750,000 dead in a population of 31 million suppressed the southern insurrection and emancipated the slaves, the majority of African-Americans were still...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 13, 2019 | Law
The growth of the Court’s influence has coincided with that of the federal government itself. As the ambition of federal legislation increased from the New Deal onward, the possibilities for running afoul of the law increased dramatically. At the same time, the growth...
