Until recently, some of your 6th Amendment rights were not taken seriously. Conservatives made a mess of the law. Originalists fixed it. With this entry, I’m going to make you an expert on the 6th Amendment while making an enemy out of the ghost of William Rehnquist and Warren Berger. And the way I’m going […]
Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. Sometimes it later fixes them. But it doesn’t always admit it. It can be a tricky thing for members of a respectable institution to admit that they or their predecessors on the same bench were wrong. Do it seldom; the Court loses credibility, especially when the overruling is plainly […]
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published on the Cinematic Katzenjammer in December, 2016. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story contradicts the Original Star Wars. Not the trilogy; just the original 1977 movie. This article is a nerdy litigator’s exercise in construction, but stick with it. This ain’t CinemaSins. It’s fun. I assume two things: […]
The Supreme Court can tell us all no. That’s a good thing. Blasphemous as it may be to say on Twitter, I genuinely like Ben Shapiro. I have important disagreements with him, but I’m proud of how he’s become a household name. I admire him for his steadfast courage. And I think that in terms […]
Dear Readers, Boy, the Supreme Court sure can be dull sometimes. If you’ve ever tried reading a judicial opinion, you probably got about four or five paragraphs in before seeing a citation for a case you’ve never heard of. It appears like an orange cone tossed into the middle of a NASCAR track. Suddenly you […]
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