It s one thing to redecorate the Oval Office with garish gold doodads superglued to the walls and fireplace surround. It s another to build a ballroom to rival the gaudy excesses of the Palace of Versailles, or to have gold gilt applied over statues that were intended to be bronze. Tasteless and wastefully expensive, for sure, [ ]
People take social media way too seriously. A few weeks ago I saw this young lady on one of my social media feeds in a great deal of distress over her neighbors. If her post was to be believed, some of them had recently mistaken her husband for a relative named “Kevin” who owed the [ ]
Judge Christopher Cooper held that Congress, and only Congress, can change the name of the Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center Board, comprised of Trump sycophants, cronies and, as chairman, Trump, after being forced to remove Trump s name above that of President Kennedy, has come up with a workaround. The board of the John F. Kennedy [ ]
It might seem counterintuitive, but when Congress eliminated the $200 registration fee under the 1934 National Firearms Act for the registration of suppressors and short-barreled rifles, it rendered the law unconstitutional. So held Judge Jimmy Hendrix*, and the government has not as yet appealed. House Republicans added a provision eliminating the $200 tax on suppressors and [ ]
She s unnamed, but described in twits as being a wife, mother and born and raised near Bailey s Crossroads in Northern Virginia. That didn t stop an unnamed and masked ICE agent from pointing his weapon at her. The official DHS explanation was routine. Under most circumstances, there would be no way to challenge this official account, [ ]
Long time readers may recall a debate I had with Elie Mystal in the early days of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls Woke 1. This was before the murder of the George Floyd, before the riots in the street, before #MeToo, cancel culture and Defund Police. I shared many of the end goals of those [ ]
On August 9th, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon resigned. Heather Cox Richardson does a good job of chronicling how it came to be that a break-in at the Watergate Complex to tap the telephones of the Democratic National Committee took down a presidency. Putting aside J.D. Vance s cynical, yet likely accurate, observation that Watergate would [ ]
At Volokh Conspiracy, Jon Adler makes a good, and deeply disturbing point. If the Supreme Court does intervene, either on the interim docket or after argument, this case might present a good opportunity for the justices to revisit and perhaps restrain the permissive approach to standing in cases against the federal government, particularly those relying upon aesthetic [ ]
By the time you read this, my son will be starting his sixth grade year in school. It’s a new school for him so he gets a half day of orientation today and a half day Monday. The first full day of school for everyone is actually this coming Tuesday in my area. I’m so [ ]
Stephen Miller is nothing if not tenacious in his hatred of immigrants, his own ancestry notwithstanding. After the Supreme Court ruled against Trump s birthright citizenship Executive Order, and given the vast array of grandiose construction projects going poorly, plus that darn war that won t go away no matter how many times Trump claims he won, [ ]