Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
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Democracy Unbalanced
Posted on February 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....
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The Common Carrier
Posted on February 6, 2015
In English common law, a common carrier transports products or people from one place to another. In America, that evolved from products and people to include telephonic and radio communications....
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Boehner’s Blunder or Barack’s Brush-Back
Posted on July 11, 2014
If I were a constitutional lawyer, I would find Speaker of the House John Boehner’s impending lawsuit against President Obama completely fascinating. I am not a lawyer, so I can’t...
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Supreme Court Decision and the Age of Deform
Posted on April 3, 2014
Lobbyists groaned. If there was any immediate result that came from the decision by Supreme Court to invalidate the Federal Election Commission, that was it....
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March for Life
Posted on January 24, 2011
For the last 37 years, on January 24th, thousands of people, mostly Catholics but some assorted others, have come to Washington D.C. and marched around the Capitol building, ending up...
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