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Pest Control for Pesky Evidence

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: April 6, 2011

Should courts be outlawed from thwarting outlaws? The Environmental Protection Agency has acted to unilaterally ban a pesticide in use for decades. Writing for the Cato Institute’s blog, Ilya Shapiro notes that the agency’s move exemplifies “a growing trend among federal agencies and courts to incrementally expand the government’s enforcement…

Democracy Gored

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: March 13, 2000

Stop the presses. We've got a scoop. Or rather, don't stop the presses. What would be the point? It will be illegal for us to know about this scoop until after the November election. You know the old saying: "All the news that's fit to print except anything that might…

Video: Initiatives and Referendums in Colorado

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: May 3, 2014

Two anti-initiative bills were defeated this week by a unanimous vote in a state senate committee in Colorado. This outcome, thanks to a coalition of groups and civic leaders from left, right and in-between that rallied people to get involved. Here two leaders, Elena Nunez with Colorado Common Cause and…

Townhall: Racist Anti-Racism

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: October 14, 2012

This weekend’s Townhall column is about race. It is long, in part because talking about race is still so tricky that brief discussions can be easily taken out of context. And there’s so much to say. I expand on some comments I made on Friday. But I try to spell…

William Godwin

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: November 10, 2022

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Vol. 2, bk. 6, ch. 1.

Constitutionalize the Court

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: April 12, 2021

“To undo the damage Republicans did by stealing multiple Supreme Court seats,” argues Demand Justice, “we should immediately add seats to the Supreme Court and appoint justices who will restore balance.” “Stealing”? That’s hyperbolic, to say the least. The Senate used its constitutional prerogative by refusing to approve President Obama’s…

A. C. Grayling

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: December 5, 2021

Thus justice is not equality but equity; as Aristotle says, “Injustice arises when equals are treated unequally, and unequals are treated equally.”A.C. Grayling, “Protest,” Life, Sex, and Ideas (2002).

George Sutherland

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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland, Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board, 301 U.S. 103, 141 (1937)…

Herbert Spencer

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: August 18, 2013

Perhaps the soul of goodness in things evil is by nothing better exemplified than by the good thing, justice, which, in rudimentary form, exists within the evil thing revenge.

Aeschylus

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: October 1, 2018

ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκη ποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα For where might and justice are yoke-fellows — What pair is stronger than this?