Posts related primarily to the Judicial Branch of our Federal Government.
It is January 6, 2023. It is two years ago today that a mob of un-Americans laid siege to our Capital in the hopes of retaining Donald J. Trump in the office of the Presidency. Donald Trump and his many minions had prepared for that day and some of them actively helped to stoke the …
I have tried to keep my comments, on current affairs, in the middle of the political aisle, but recent events are not all political – many are better described within the context of terrorism. I think it is time for me to strip off all the varnish and call it like I see it. Our …
There has never been a shortage of people arguing for a secular government if that secular ideology was their own. Our Founding Fathers decided that this path was a perilous one and chose a non-secular way forward. Our 1st Amendment contains many of our rights and freedoms, but the first among them is our freedom …
Well, here we are again with the talking heads all a twitter over the Supreme Court Opinion to overturn the fifty-year-old legal president known as Roe vs. Wade which sanctioned a women’s right to choose. Many of those talking heads are citing what they believe to be Constitutional text giving Supreme Court Justices “lifetime tenure …
It is June 24th, 2022. Mark that date in your memory because it is the day when conservatives everywhere told us that what their religious beliefs tell them is more important than anything the rest of us might think. They don’t care what your religious beliefs are because their beliefs are more important than yours. …
This morning our media is filled to overflowing with commentary about a leaked draft of a Supreme Court Opinion dealing with the future of Roe v. Wade. Never mind that this was largely expected given the partisan makeup of the Court. The real story here is not what the Court may be getting ready to …
Our history is filled with discussions and even disagreements about the character or our Constitutional government. Many of our number exclaim almost reflexively that we are a democracy while others remind us that “to the republic for which it stands” our flag properly flies over more than just a democracy and a few will even …
Just over a year ago, I offered a blog post regarding the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. I titled my thoughts, It’s Treason Stupid!and I made a case that the behaviors of our former President, several Senators and Representatives and various media persons were best described as Treason. Now, we have witnessed an invasion of …
We’re starting to learn just how close Donald Trump and his loyal followers, domestic enemies of our United States of America, came to successfully overthrowing our government. They came perilously close to ending our republican democracy. Apparently close isn’t good enough. It may not be well understood, but our Founding Fathers actually thought about the …
For me the murder of George Floyd was a threshold event in many ways. Here I would like to take a look at one of those issues, this whole business of qualified immunity for Police Officers. One of the questions I find popping up in my thoughts a lot these days is how our society …
