While the Court’s upholding the mandate is deservedly taking front stage in the media coverage, the Court’s decision to strike down a part of the Medicaid expansion may ultimately have…

…religion and therefore are “persons” within the meaning of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: After observing that “eight courts of appeals, every court of appeal to have looked at the…

…court) and circuit court (appellate court) levels. Much less do they know the genuinely appalling effect of the complete takeover of the entire civil and criminal justice systems, state and…

…has written extensively on the Supreme Court’s tax jurisprudence) and I gave a joint keynote speech for the Tax Section’s Diversity Committee. Our address covered various aspects of Supreme Court…

The above is a more-than-semi-serious question. I’ll be blogging/tweeting the Kauffman Foundation’s Bloggers’s Forum tomorrow from 9:30-3:30 EDT (8:30-2:30 here in Kansas City; 6:30-12:30 in DeLong/Thomaville; in Hawaii, they’re still…

…antiquated doctrine that conservatives on the United States Supreme Court have signaled they want to revive. The Michigan Supreme Court was following the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court. In…

…Court nominations and decisions. Aside from Chief Justice John Roberts, every Supreme Court justice named by a Republican president has ties to the Federalist Society, a group that advocates an…

…in American politics.” In the light of day today, the political fallout from Texas’s anti-abortion S.B. 8 law and the Supreme Court’s acceptance of that law continues to become clear….

…late, we’ve been moribund with too little government. The republican party obstructed the investigation of Russia’s connections to the Trump campaign, and the Supreme Court went along. The Republican Party…

Retreating to the political side of Angry Bear. Atrios, had “You Could Fire Him” up on Friday. This concerns Justice Kavanaugh and how he was pushed into the position on…