by Noah Feldman Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court reaffirmed precedent and declined an invitation to ...
by Lawrence Goldstone Conventional wisdom is that the Supreme Court is divided 6-3, with the (far) right holding the advantage over the (far) left. If that were true, there would be no hope for those on the left or even in the center of preventing the Court, which has become a de facto ...
by Stephen L. Carter Kudos to Penguin Random House for sticking to its plan to publish a book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett despite a petition from hundreds of people who work in publishing arguing that the company should cancel the volume due to the author’s vote to overturn Roe v. ...
Keeping up with the times is important A recent article in the Washington Post described President Biden’s pause to use outside experts to help him work through his approach to multiple crises facing his presidency as a diversion. The topic was the dire condition of democracy at home and ...
by Gene Collier The architect of this fresh American madness should take his rightful bows today, deep and from the waist, and it’s not Donald Trump, whose grasp of advanced legal concepts is only that he can’t be restrained by them. Sen. Mitch McConnell is the man of this ...
by Robin Abcarian By the second day of Senate hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, it became apparent that Republicans just don’t have the ammunition necessary to torpedo her chances. Nominated by President Joe Biden to fulfill his campaign ...