Stripping jurisdiction from the Federal courts
Here is an interesting question to ponder: does Congress have the power to exempt from the United States Supreme Court or Federal courts cases dealing with cert...
Category: Supreme Court
God is banished from the classroom?
Note: This discussion should be considered applicable to the United States only. Prayers are one of the dominating themes of religion. They range from simple ve...
Sexual morality and Texas
In typical discussions of morality, two topics tend to come up more than most: sex and abortion. Obviously the two are related — without the former you wo...
Further commentary on the pledge of allegiance
If you threaten to take the words “under God” out of the pledge of allegiance, you’re a secular, anti-American lunatic. Or so the Christian ri...
Presumption of innocence
Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.1“The burden of proof rests on who asserts, not on who denies.” In the United States of America, any p...
Elena Kagan
As an attorney, Elena Kagan, currently the Solicitor General of the United States, has a distinguished and accomplished career. However she does not have any ex...
The Supremacy Clause and Treaties
The Constitution typically is interpreted to be superior to every branch of government in the United States. It lays the framework for the Federal government an...
What are rights?
Let me lay this idea out there, which I will expand on in a later article: A right is inherent and inalienable, something for which no action is required of any...
A forgotten case on abortion
Typically when discussing abortion, many in both the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" camps tend to focus on the infamous Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113...
The Bill of Rights and Immigrants
Question: Does the Bill of Rights apply to immigrants? Recently I’ve been getting into some interesting discussions with my cousin’s husband. Many of these disc...