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.
(Carolina Journal) – The newest member of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals used a North Carolina case Wednesday to discuss the potential legal impact of shifting attitudes about marijuana.
HELENA, Mont. — New Medicaid rules took effect for many Montana residents as the state began requiring community engagement for most Medicaid expansion members ages 19 to 64.
The Arizona Supreme Court will let groups argue a recent state law that shines a light on outside spending in political races violates free speech concerns, though the court rejected other arguments.
(The Center Square) – A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice once again called the court’s decision to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel’s ruling on the state’s congressional maps an “activist court” doing the “bidding of its political masters.”
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Thursday, said private companies do not have an automatic right to sue over unlawful contracts.
Voting rights groups this week are pressing the Florida Supreme Court to put the state’s newly drawn congressional map on hold until court proceedings on the map’s legality play out.
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is leading a 20-state coalition in support of students pursuing degrees that Virginia has deemed too religious to qualify for the state’s scholarship programs.
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.”
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the dismissal of the youth-led climate lawsuit Lighthiser v. Trump, ruling the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and that their grievances should be addressed through political processes rather than the courts.
