The Constitution is occasionally amended and continually interpreted, and it still offers hope for the future.
Thurgood Marshall
Posted inLaw and Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Real History of Choosing Supreme Court Justices
Joe Biden joins Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and other presidents who changed a narrow definition of what it means to be a justice.
Posted inPolitics
All Supreme Court Appointments Are Political—and They Should Be
Republicans criticizing Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination should take a look at history.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Clarence Thomas Museum Controversy
Sometimes you just can’t withhold judgment. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture unveiled its latest exhibit, one featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a figure whose absence from the museum when it opened a year ago raised eyebrows among conservatives. According to the Washington Times, Thomas appears as part of an […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
An Atrocious Anniversary
You’ve run into The Argument if you’ve been on social media for any length of time. It usually comes from an erstwhile supporter of Bernie Sanders who now vows to volunteer for Jill Stein. It’s an argument so lacking in logic, so overt in its obnoxiousness, so deficient in its dignity that one wonders how […]
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The Fox News Channel’s Culture of Chauvinism
Two weeks ago, I noted the 25th anniversary of President George H. W. Bush’s notorious nomination of Clarence Thomas to replace Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court. You may recall this anecdote from Jeffrey Toobin’s 1993 New Yorker profile of Thomas: Thomas can no longer take runs along the [National] Mall, as […]
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Strange Justice, Indeed
Should he stay or should he go? The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have denounced the rumor that the controversial conservative may be planning to leave the bench next year, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the rumor is false. If Thomas does decide to call it a career in 2017, it will […]
