In 2018, I went on a canoe trip down the Whanganui River in New Zealand. I went on the trip because, in 2017, the government of New Zealand had granted “personhood” status to the river, giving it legal rights in court to speak for itself. The government’s action was the result of a 140-year legal battle by […]
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They did it again. Kansans supporting abortion rights and public education turned out en masse Tuesday to send a decisive message to Republican power brokers determined to bring the state Supreme Court to heel. Not on our watch, voters said. Not four years ago, not today. The scope of the achievement staggered. Not only did […]
(The Center Square) – An Illinois conservative advocacy group is criticizing a new state law that allows minors to obtain birth control, including implants and IUDs, without parental consent or notification, arguing the measure undermines parental rights and medical oversight.
Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
(The Center Square) - Washington State Court of Appeals Judge Mike Diaz says over 25 years of experience in the legal industry have prepared him to be ready for day one if elected to the state's Supreme Court.
(The Center Square) – A Pittsville mother has reached a settlement that includes legal fees and recognition of her free speech rights after she received a cease-and-desist letter and a visit from police to her home following a video she posted on social media stating that she was considering homeschooling her disabled daughter after she was pushed aside at a holiday school concert.
The evolution in America of rationales for the cascading growth of presidential power, which began in earnest in the post-war world and followed a trajectory through the expression of the Imperial Presidency before reaching new heights in President Donald Trump’s authoritarian pretensions, has long found traction in the misappropriation and misuse of Justice Robert H. Jackson’s famous aphorism, “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
One of the grave consequences for American constitutionalism of the untrammeled concentration of power in the hands of President Donald Trump — the putative goal of Project 2025 — is his total control over the Department of Justice. There is no separation between President Trump and his Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former criminal defense lawyer, no independence between the White House and the DOJ. What Trump wants, Trump gets — the governing principle of authoritarianism.
