President Donald Trump has lost ground in the arena that gave him a victory four years ago: Main Street. Recent headlines are not shy in proclaiming this. But he can win Main Street back if he would commit to reining
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Ken Zaretzke
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Same-Sex Marriage: The Continuing Conversation
Immanentizing the eschaton via Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy has achieved his long-sought goal—namely, to be to 21st-century America what Bonaparte was to 19th-century Europe. In respectable quarters Justice Kennedy is considered a world-historical personage, having made the
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Gay Marriage in the Dock
In the 2012 election, same-sex marriage made gains at the ballot box for the first time—however narrowly—in all four states where “marriage equality” was presented to the voters for decision. Have the American people been successfully fooled?
Maybe the more
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Terminating an Unwanted Parentcy
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
On Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeals
June 21, 2017
Justice Breyer delivered the Opinion of the Court.
Sheila X is a single woman living in San Diego. Shortly after
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Pulling the Wool Over Their Eyes: A Straussian Memoir
You may be taken aback by the first part of my title, but do not be. Wool, after all, is that which warms us. In the Ice Age, pulling wool over the eyes was tantamount to survival. That sense lingers
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Supreme Subjectivism and Arbitrary Abortion
A half-century ago, in Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court referred to the “basic principle that the federal judiciary is supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution” as “settled doctrine” and “a permanent and indispensable feature
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The Coming Slap in the Face
In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Kelo v. City of New London, depriving property owners of rights that virtually everyone has always assumed they had. Very soon—before you can say “sequel to Lawrence
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A Look Ahead
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
on writ of certiorari to
the court of appeals
June 26, 2013
(Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.)
The jurisprudence of liberty is a bright and shining star. Its twinkling
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