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I recently began my study at law school, and I have been thinking about, well…the law. I have seen how the law can work for good and for ill. That depends on how the lawyers argue their points. Look at the Dred Scott case back in the 1800s. The Supreme Court Decided that the entire [...]  Read More →

Maybe because some governments (Multnomah county, Oregon) threaten 7 year-old girls with a $500 dollar fine for running a lemonade stand without the proper permit.Darn kids, always flouting regulations, that’s what’s wrong with young people today . . .But, you say, “the county apologized, and no real harm done, right?” (except for fixing permanently in that girl’s mind a terrifying first  Read More →

An excellent analysis of why trying Khalid Shiekh Mohammud in New York is a colossal mistake. The legal jargon is a little dense, sorry.The writer is an attorney who lays out how the trial will inevitably play out. I think he’s exactly right. We’ve seen this already in the trial of Zacharias Moussoui (however it’s spelled), the alleged 20th hijacker. In short it will be a massive media circus,  Read More →

From a National Review Blog:This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—November 12 [Ed Whelan]1908—In Nashville, Illinois, the human fetus to become known as Harry A. Blackmun emerges safe and sound from his mother’s womb. Some sixty-five years later, Justice Blackmun authors the Supreme Court opinion in Roe v. Wade. (See This Day for Jan. 22, 1973.) Somehow the same people who think it  Read More →

For many years I have been interested in constitutional law. Why? Perhaps a few cases will illustrate this well: In cases such as Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District, some claim that students cannot attend a religious high school and still receive government funds. If the government gives funding to one student to attend a secular school, but withholds those funds from another student who attends a religious high school, then what happened to freedom of religion? Turns out that courts in this and other cases have allowed students to “freely exercise” their religion without punishment from the government. Unfortunately, sometimes school administrators break with the courts. A few years ago, some friends of mine started a petition at our California high school in opposition to same-sex marriage. One teacher took away this petition, labeling it “discriminatory.” Wait a second…isn’t free speech protected in school? In fact, a state director... Read the rest of this entry »