The Supreme Court finally declined to privilege a pro-abortion litigant. Instead, it applied the sort of common-sense standard it would apply to any other legal dispute.
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The 25th amendment is seriously ambiguous. It creates uncertainties that discourage using its procedure.
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A sharp increase in Colorado mountain biking, caused partly by population rise but primarily by new bike technology, caused cyclists to flood the mountain parks. Administrators have failed to respond effectively
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Those rights liberals favor are placed in, as the Supreme Court expresses it, a “preferred position.” The rights favored by everyone else can be more readily trampled.
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Here’s the most important underlying cause of the fires: federal land ownership.
These orders, federal and state, and not merely unconstitutional. They are fundamentally anti-constitutional. They are at war with a fundamental reason the Constitution was adopted.
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In drafting the U.S. Constitution, the framers composed a document unique for its balance and beauty.
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The term “the people” was not, as sometimes claimed, limited to wealthy white males.
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Gouverneur Morris had been educated in Greek and Latin poetry, but in composing the preamble he wisely adopted meter appropriate to English. He heightened the effect with alliteration and near rhymes.
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If the plaintiffs actually do uncover systematic efforts by the Biden administration and other Democratic officeholders to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of the press, this will be the most egregious abuse-of-power scandal in recent times.
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So, the theory goes, if Congress invited Twitter to exercise political censorship, then Congress violated the First Amendment. But this theory also has weaknesses . . . .
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Social media’s power to censor must be exercised only to empower parents in protecting their children. . . . . It’s not a license for a company’s civic ignoramuses to impose their political prejudices on the rest of us.
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