First Decision of the Supreme Court Term: A Unanimous Liberal Result
The first decision of the Supreme Court’s new term tends to confirm my view that the Court does not have, as the media claim, conservative majority. It also tends to confirm my conclusion that Republican-nominated justices are unlikely to alter much. In Mount Lemmon...About Birthright Citizenship
It has hit the news cycle once again: The perennial question of whether the children born in America of parents illegally in this country are natural born (“birthright”) citizens. The constitutional question revolves around whether such children are “subject to the...
Yet Another Constitutional Precedent: A Colonial Charter from New York
In my last post, I focused on the erroneous, but fairly common, claim that the Constitution’s framers simply “made the Constitution up.” In fact, they applied centuries of political tradition, both from England and America. I offered the example of the 1636 Pilgrim...