On this day in 1858, a relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech that will affect the political quickening of our “rebirth of freedom” in…
HOW DO GOVERNORS HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER TO LIMIT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS LIKE OUR FREEDOM TO EXERCISE RELIGION? Indulge me for a moment. Allow me to set…
I write this as a kind of confession that I have allowed my legal training to distract me from the deeper and more sinister aspects…
I was not deeply perusing, but I was revisiting his thought. William Blackstone is regarded as one of the key intellectual influences on the America…
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS CANNOT BE SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY Remember the arguments during the Guantanamo Cases a decade ago? And the Civil War Mulligan case? Fundamental Rights CAN…
Despite a common belief that the Civil War, Reconstruction Amendments and the Civil Rights Act have brought us closer to a “colorblind” constitution where all…
I’ve been out running chores all day so I don’t have much time to write. But I wanted to remind all my friends that today…
Today April 24th, 1877 the Hayes Administration (Rutherford B. Hayes. 19th President) ordered the last federal troops out of the South after a post-Civil War…
Some thoughts on the changes the Democrats are making to the way the Electoral College works Over the last few years, 15 blue states have…
THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE OR RECEIVE A VISA TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES There is no Constitutional prohibition on Congress’s plenary legal…