Supreme Court: property rights vs. labor unions
This is a rare case in which the liberal media’s imaginary “conservative Supreme Court majority” really showed up.
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Time for the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade
Even leading pro-choice scholars have acknowledged Roe’s defects.
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Supreme Court curbs the COVID police
The most memorable opinion was written by Justice Gorsuch. In joining the majority, he reminded us that “Government is not free to disregard the First Amendment in times of crisis.”
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Explaining the Texas presidential election case: Where the Supreme Court was right and wrong
[T]he Texas case . . . raised important factual issues and crucial questions of constitutional law. But that’s not to say Texas should have won.
New from the Supreme Court: A smashing victory for religious liberty
This case reflected an irony common these days: The majority the media calls “conservative” applying liberal precedent while the three most liberal justices argued against it!
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Even with Amy Coney Barrett, we don’t really have a conservative Supreme Court
At the close of every annual court term, commentators express surprise that so many of the court’s decisions over the previous year have been liberal. They never make the simple deduction that if the court is producing so many liberal decisions, then perhaps it is not “conservative” after all.
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The significance of the Amy Coney Barrett appointment
In Justice Barrett we have a two-fer. She offers geographic diversity . . . And she offers educational diversity.
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The Left’s War on the Constitution
[T]he “progressives” have lost the argument over constitutional meaning. And that is why they have pivoted to assail the document itself.
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Is the Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett Unconstitutional?
[T]he statements by Biden, Leahy, and Feingold are flatly incorrect. The current proceedings are neither “unconstitutional” nor “illegitimate” nor an attempt to “steal” anything.
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Another take-down of the “conservative Supreme Court” myth
Statistics from the Supreme Court’s last term belie the claim that it has become conservative.
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COVID-19 and the Constitution
The Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
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Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
[S]etting minimum consumption ages is not a power the Constitution grants the federal government. The Constitution reserves it to the states.
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