Ripped from the headlines, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s shaggy bear story is ripe for the Dick Wolf treatment.
Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly.
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The Lost Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Trump Saloon!
The Washington Monthly unearths the unknown 1858 debate in which the very nasty–and, frankly, very rude–press corps is totally unfair to Mr. Lincoln, our second greatest president after Donald J. Trump.
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The Supreme Court Comes for the Homeless
I suspect the lawyers for the City of Boise, Idaho, sensed trouble back in 2018 when they read the first paragraph of Judge Marsha Berzon’s opinion in a lawsuit against the city by six homeless plaintiffs. It begins with a quote from Anatole France, the French novelist: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Was the Alito Flag Really About?
We must deal with the dangers of Justice Alito now, even if the roots of what happened with his spouse may never be known.
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The Supreme Court Takes On Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong?
Today, the justices hear arguments on a Grants Pass, Oregon, municipal ordinance that slaps heavy fines and, if unpaid, criminal penalties on the homeless.
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The Supreme Court Hears Abortion Drug Arguments or Why Samuel Alito Wants To Be Your Gynecologist
The Court’s conservative supermajority doesn’t seem likely to curtail the availability of mifepristone, but not for lack of trying by the justice who wrote the Dobbs opinion.
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Justices Find Trump Ballot Arguments Supremely Vexing
An observer of the Supreme Court oral argument on the 45th president’s getting kicked off the Colorado primary ballot might be forgiven for asking, “What have you done with Donald Trump’s legal team?” The argument offered by the former president’s attorney was quite different than the posturing of his lawyers in previous cases—and even in […]
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It’s Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here
Not since the meek accountant in the back of the courtroom leapt up and screamed, “Stop, Perry Mason! I did it! I killed him, and I’m GLAD!” has a suspect been quite so eager to confess his crimes as Donald J. Trump. When he proposed a Muslim ban in 2016 and then actually declared one […]
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The Wrong Reasons to Keep Trump on the Ballot
Whether the former president violated the insurrection clause is debatable, but some of the lame excuses being bandied about are not.
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What Do You Get When You Cross Samuel Alito with the State of Texas?
Two developments last week—a New York Times exposé on Supreme Court maneuvers to overturn Roe and a Texas woman compelled to deliver a fetus with a rare and fatal genetic defect—underscore the slipshod nature of the Dobbs ruling.
