The Supreme Court has, in the past few years, upheld (or discovered) the constitutional right of an individual to own a handgun, based, primarily, on the right to defend one’s self against bad guys. I had previously written about the need to re-examine the meaning and scope of the Second Amendment in the light of [...]
Thank Goodness Those blasted activist judges. How dare they consider “most elementary notions of justice and morality?” Steve Pearlstein, writing in the Washington Post, expressed the dismay over U.S. Distinct Judge Jed Rakoff’s cavalier approach to the law: I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it up to here with activist judges who think [...]
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Charles Dickens’ Mr. Bumble had harsh words for the law in the context of marital rights: “If the law supposes that… the law is a [sic] ass—a idiot.” Every once in a while, however, in spite of itself, the law produces justice. When this happens the public should rejoice and some jurists wonder what went [...]
Another view of the Gates-Crowley matter. Far too much has been written about the confrontation between Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police. In all of the discussion, an important Constitutional issue is being totally ignored. Assuming, arguendo, lapsing into Latin as we lawyers are prone to do (otherwise [...]
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