Here’s the key problem with women’s studies: They ignore the women most worthy of study. Into this category falls the dear—and she was—departed author and activist Phyllis Schlafly. She crammed more achievements into one lifetime…
Topic: U.S. Supreme Court
What It Takes to be a Supreme Court Reporter
Should you really “write what you know” as the age-old saying goes? Sure, if you studied law and a little bit of Latin. But who benefits from that? Cui Bono? Journalists covering the Supreme Court of the…
WATCH: Reactions of Protesters at SCOTUS over Texas Abortion Clinics Case
Accuracy in Media’s Amanda Florian interviews several people from both sides of the political spectrum, asking them how they felt after hearing about the Supreme Court decision concerning a 2013 Texas abortion law.
SCOTUS Sides with University of Texas in Race-Based Admissions
It appears that the highest court in the land ruled in favor for quotas for everyone that isn’t non-white.
Social Justice VS. America’s Founding Principles
The eloquent Justice Clarence Thomas recently warned the class of 2016 in a commencement address at Hillsdale College that since “the rising tide of social justice demands run afoul of this nation’s founding principles,” this…
No Dissent from Any George Mason University Law Professor over Scalia Name
Wow. Not a single one dissented (one abstention) in a vote over the renaming of the law school after the passing of SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia.
Gay Marriage on the Rocks
Outside of academia, even gay marriage supporters are dubious about the Supreme Court’s legal logic in legalizing it. “When I read Justice Kennedy’s decision, I wanted to embroider it on a pillow but wondered if…
George Will: Newton’s Law of Physics Applies to Pushback Against Obama
From George Will’s op-ed in the Washington Post, which is a worthwhile read: Notice the Newtonian physics of America’s Madisonian system. Barack Obama’s Wilsonian hostility to the separation of powers, expressed in his executive authoritarianism,…
Conservative, Libertarian Law Students at Georgetown Unhappy with Professor’s Criticism of Scalia
Professor Gary Peller was critical of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was a Georgetown undergraduate, and now some law students are intimidated by his anti-Scalia bias. How will they freely participate in…
Justice Scalia was More Catholic than Pope Francis
On Saturday night, a lunatic by the name of Jason Brian Dalton went on a weekend killing spree in Michigan. The next day, contradicting the official Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis called for the worldwide abolition…