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Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 27, 2019
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: February 19, 2016
There weren’t ever hearings on any judicial nomination until the 1930s. Kevin Gutzman, February 17, 2016
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 14, 2015
“The ancient maxim makes the sum of a man’s legal duty to his fellow men to be simply this: ‘To live honestly, to hurt no one, to give to every one his due.’”
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 22, 2023
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. Aristotle, Politics, Book Eight.
Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 21, 2013
This is a story about monks and coffins, not vampires and coffins. But, since it takes place in Louisiana, you might be thinking “vampires.” And not just because Interview With a Vampire, Fevre Dream, Dracula 2000 and True Blood have all focused on the Pelican State as a hotbed of…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 27, 2014
On May 27, 1863, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland issued Ex parte Merryman, challenging the authority of President Abraham Lincoln to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland, the legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without showing cause. On May 25, John…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: June 28, 2012
With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The reform package, popularly known as Obamacare, requires that individuals…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 27, 2015
“A good parson once said, that where mystery begins, religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?” Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society (1756).”
Relevance: 34% Posted on: November 20, 2015
The Institute for Justice’s new report, Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture, details a “big and growing problem” that “threatens basic rights to property and due process.” Through both criminal and civil forfeiture laws, governments can seize property used in — or the proceeds of — a…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: June 6, 2012
In 1883, Andy Jackson becomes the first U.S. president to ride on a train. Also on June 6, in 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning marijuana. Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent on this case becomes an instant classic