Why Justice Scalia was right about textualism for statutes, but wrong about textualism for the Constitution.
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When his fellow justices defend religious liberty only tepidly, Gorsuch’s concurring opinions stake out stronger positions. When his colleagues do not defend religious liberty at all, he dissents.
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The court should have dismissed this lawsuit immediately . . . .[But] we at Colorado’s Independence Institute took it very seriously. We anticipated that unscrupulous liberal jurists might seize on it as a way to destroy TABOR.
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Several judges commented on the dishonesty of the administration’s legal defenses.
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“After World War I ended in 1918 every senator had been directly elected. But instead of following the liberal pattern of diverting wartime spending into domestic programs, Congress reduced the size of the government.”
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The “progressive’s” lockdowns . . . increased the gap between rich and poor, and benefited their friends while punishing their opponents.
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The purpose of the vaccination mandate is not to regulate commerce. Its purpose is to promote health, expand political power, or both. That violates the no-pretext rule.
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As flexible as the Equal Protection Clause is, the Supreme Court has managed to exceed its scope.
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The framers believed that for an American government to protect liberty, its constitution must include provisions that incorporated five distinct values.
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The Declaration’s values surface in every part of the document.
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This two-part essay is a primer on the longest amendment ever adopted—the 14th.
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(Above: The CDC campus in Atlanta; Reuters) This essay was first printed in The Epoch Times on October 31, 2021;
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