Roberts Read the Entrails
Haruspex in action Jonah Goldberg heaps some well-deserved abuse on Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling. Why not just cut open a goat and be done with it? In ancient Rome, a special kind of priest called a...
View ArticleWe Can Always Just Get Drunk
Tristyn Bloom reacted to the Chief Justice voting to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare with some mixed drink recipes themed to the occasion. The Randy Barnett Activity tonight, inactivity...
View ArticleWhy Do Republican Supreme Court Appointments So Often Turn Out To Be Mistakes?
Marc A. Thiessen discusses the differences in result between democrat and Republican Supreme Court appointments and speculates on just why Republican appointments produce such ideologically unreliable...
View ArticleQuantum Sophistry at the Supreme Court
The search for the Roberts’ Taxon exceeded in difficulty the search for the Higgs Boson. Iowahawk has news of the latest breakthrough in constitutional ontology. Jubilant scientists at the DNC’s High...
View ArticleGeorge Will Has Lost Touch With Reality
George Will, on ABC News recently, did everything but sing Hallelujah to the river gods as civilization appeared ready to slide another long mile downstream, with the Supreme Court announcing its...
View ArticleMarriage Equality
The Graeco-Egyptian deity Serapis is commonly depicted wearing a modius (a sort of Egyptian headgear favored by Elusinian deities). Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century BC, stored in...
View ArticleGood Luck With That
Ross Douthat predicts that Americans’ future liberty of conscience will be dependent on liberal magnanimity, and wonders (characteristically) if surrendering now might produce better terms. Unless...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is Going to Have a Second Chance
Amity Schlaes thinks the Suprene Court’s decision in the upcoming Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby case could come out as a replay of Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the 1935 case which killed the New...
View ArticleLiberal Reaction to Hobby Lobby Ruling
Sir Thomas More My pseudointellectual liberal classmates have been reacting to the Supreme Court decision in favor of Hobby Lobby, excusing religious employers from providing contraception through...
View ArticleYou Could Tell This Was Coming
Breaking News via SCOTUSBLOG: There is a right to “marriage equality”. Opinion: J. Kennedy. Scalia’s dissent, footnote 22: “If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion...
View ArticleScalia Nails It
From Justice Scalia’s dissent: The substance of todayâ€s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it...
View ArticleLet’s Start Electing the Supreme Court
Andrew C. McCarthy thinks it’s time to drop the fiction that Supreme Court justices are following the law. Last week’s decisions demonstrate once and for all that the majority of the Court is...
View ArticleConstitutional Jurisprudence in 2015
Christopher Taylor identifies the point we’ve reached in America’s relationship to its Constitution. And so we reach the point at which I’ve given up the idea of ever getting back to the constitution...
View ArticleShould SCOTUS Appointments Make Us Vote For Trump?
Jonathan V. Last, of the Weekly Standard, wonders why would anyone trust Donald Trump’s Supreme Court promises: Pretty much the only reason conservatives have for supporting Donald Trump is the...
View ArticleHow To Save a Liberal Court? Kale, Gay Bodyguards, Maybe Vampirism…?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg nods off during event. SFGate reports that lefties are panicking. Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment will be nearly impossible to oppose succcessfully, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
View ArticleWill SCOTUS Revive Freedom of Association?
Zman thinks a major blow to the Custodial State may be in the works. [T]he Left is in something close to a full panic over the oral arguments in Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The...
View ArticleKennedy’s Retirement and Liberal Doom
Bill Jacobson explains why they are taking it so hard: Thereâ€s a reason the left is freaking the hell out over the Kennedy retirement. The federal district and appeals courts have been the principal...
View ArticleTrump Could End Up Replacing 4 Supreme Court Justices in his First Term
Business Insider points out that Trump may just be getting started on remodeling the Supreme Court. Trump now stands to secure two justices in the first half of his first term. Presidents Barack Obama...
View ArticleWhy the Latest Kavanaugh Smear?
John Kass explains, in the Chicago Tribune, now that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pancreatic cancer is back in the news, the Left is panicking that its loss of control of the Supreme Court will be lengthened...
View ArticleLiberal Supreme Court Victories No More
In the liberal stronghold of the Atlantic, Minnesota Law Professor Alan Z. Rosenshtein warns his fellow lefties that the time of liberal goals being legislated from the bench is drawing to an...
View ArticleGlenn Reynolds Points Out That Supreme Court Seats Were Never Intended to Be...
Glenn Reynolds points out very astutely that, if the Supreme Court were genuinely representative of the country, instead of a small, and currently intensely abberant elite cultural clique, and if the...
View ArticleWhy Trump Ought to Win Pennsylvania
The democrats are busily harvesting ballots and the MSM has awarded Pennsylvania to Biden, but it’s not actually over, ’til it’s over. Alexander Macris explains that there is a very major problem...
View ArticleOne Key Reason They Always Win
Glenn Reynolds quotes a correspondent: Thought experiment. There are five Democrat justices on the Supreme Court. There was a Democrat president who just ran for reelection. He supposedly lost, but...
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