Gov. Greg Abbott wants Texas to lead the call for a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution in the interest of states’ rights and he is not without details, having released a 70-page plan, which if nothing else is a great teaching guide in American civics, that outlines nine proposed amendments that would […]

Did anyone really believe that the Roberts/Kennedy court would rule any differently on the same sex marriage and ObamaCare cases?  Is there any doubt that the Supreme Court not only reads election results but responds to opinion polling?  Unfortunately, however adverse to the intent of the founding, this is the state of affairs to which […]

I’m thankful for another small step in the right direction, but I wish the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a 2006 Michigan referendum banning racial preferences in college admissions would have gone much further and ended it once and for all time on its merits.  In fact, in the 6-2 majority opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote […]

The Supreme Court got a few big things right in its current term, but also added further confusion in a couple of places.  Here are some thoughts on a few of the most prominent cases. With the decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management, the Court again validated the constitutional takings clause in […]

In the first 48 hours after the surprising Supreme Court decision in the Obamacare case, after recovering from the initial shock, I was prepared to give Chief Justice John Roberts a break, the benefit of doubt about his intentions and rationale.  I drank some of the cool aid from the conservative bloggers about the genius, […]

What a contrast:  One week we have two full days of a seminar on the U. S. Constitution in the form of arguments before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act that should have been a rare teaching moment for anyone who followed the audio; this was followed by an incredible pronouncement and challenge […]

We have evidence in the past several days that the grounding for the expectation of a judicial firewall that might bail the country out of the disastrous impact of the Obama health care plan is shaky at best.  And this is not just because the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, but because of the surprising reasoning […]

Another major battlefield success for America in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a major Al Qaeda leader, and yet we endure another round of dismay from the usual suspects plus Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul about the questionable constitutionality of the event.  What don’t we understand about the fact that we are a country at war and […]

Two issues in the news lately have once again highlighted our propensity to judicial activism.  One, the Obama administration announced that it will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act; the other involves the Supreme Court decision in favor of Westboro Baptist Church in its public desecration of military funerals.  I won’t spend much […]

I have said that the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was our generation’s Dred Scott case, and I still believe it is analogous from its position as the seminal event in the culture war that has persisted since.  Now we have a decision that I believe, upon final Supreme Court appeal, may […]