Tourist guides in our nation’s capital now get to talk through what they’re walking through. DC circuit Judge Janice Brown rules that Washington, DC, wrongly burdens First Amendment rights when it prohibits talking “about points of interest or the history of the city while escorting or guiding a person who…
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
“The only responsible choice for Justice Breyer is to immediately announce his retirement,” contends Brian Fallon, executive director of Demand Justice, “so President Biden can quickly nominate the first-ever Black woman Supreme Court justice.” Not merely pushing identity politics, Fallon is warning of the risk of “Democrats losing control of…
“When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.” Aristotle, Politics, Book Eight.
Justice is blind, or so it attempts to be. Sometimes justice is deaf and dumb, too. The people of Ferguson, Missouri, await — along with the rest of the nation — the imminent announcement from the local grand jury, either a decision to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the…
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.Joseph Addison, The Guardian (1713), no. 99.
To each as they choose, from each as they are chosen.Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), Ch. 7: Distributive Justice, Section I, Patterning, p. 160.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. Apparently, Washington life doesn’t suit Souter, and, frankly, that’s the best thing I’ve heard in his favor. A lot of people now speculate on whom our president will nominate, and how it will impact our country’s future. What will Congress do with the…
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” Edmund Burke, Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789).
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, in Georgia v. Brailsford, 1794.