supreme court
A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court’s rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math...
Can the President Tax You?
This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as...
Supreme Court Offers Some Hope for Restraining Cops
Last month, I wrote about an example about how lawless police have become in America, noting that in recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of Martin v. United States “a lawyer for the US government argued, in the case concerning a wrong house...
Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision
As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base...
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