At Day Two of her hearings, the Supreme Court nominee was visibly wrestling with legal and ethical questions about recusal.
Law and Justice
Republicans Decry Nonexistent Religious Bigotry at Coney Barrett Hearing
Instead, Democrats stuck to a quotidian but reality-based argument about how Trump’s nominee would scrap the Affordable Care Act.
COVID-19 Gives Us the Chance to Close Prisons. Here’s Why and How.
In response to the pandemic, prison officials are already reducing inmate populations. Why let a crisis go to waste?
What Joe Biden Could Learn From Abraham Lincoln About White-Collar Crime
White-collar crime has real victims. Expanding a Civil War-era law aimed at profiteers would help citizens fight back.
John Roberts Ponders Partisanship. (Cue the Groans.)
The Supreme Court is political, divided, and not the honest referee the Chief Justice promised. Harold Pinter would recognize this play.
Amy Coney Barrett’s Stare Decisis Problem—And Ours
She respects precedent less than Antonin Scalia, meaning she’s ready to join Clarence Thomas and start taking a hammer to long standing decisions
Packing the Court Might Work. Threatening to Pack It Did.
What Joe Biden can learn from FDR.
Why Bill Barr Shields Foreign Terrorists from the Death Penalty
And yet, the AG has revived capital punishment for U.S. convicts. It’s time to end the hypocrisy and stop all executions.
Donald Trump, Constitutional Grift, and John Yoo
The former Bush administration lawyer defends Trumpian assertions of power. He’s not convincing.
Why the U.S. Responded Differently to the Opioid and Crack Cocaine Epidemics
Professor Ekow Yankah and I were interviewed on Detroit Today by Stephen Henderson. The subject was why the country took a different approach to the current opioid epidemic than it did to the crack cocaine epidemic. You can listen to the show here. This is a brief summary of my own analysis of why we… Read more »
