Legal Update

Earlier this month, North Carolina’s voters considered six constitutional amendment proposals and approved four of them. Two of the approved amendments are straightforward textual changes with no immediate statutory impact,…

Just over one hundred years ago—on November 11th, 1918—Germany signed the Armistice that brought World War I to an end. Propagandists’ high-flown rhetoric notwithstanding (“the war to end all wars,”…

In a Daily Caller piece last week, Philip Hamburger asked, “If Jeff Sessions steps down as attorney general, who will replace him?” With the President’s recent announcement that…

The quotation comes from a recently published opinion by North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge John M. Tyson. The judge’s opinion in North Carolina v. Ayers clears up…

I was a fan of Don Willett when he sat on the Texas Supreme Court. I was pleased when he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accidentally self-reported a serious federal violation. He could face a $100,000 fine. See if you can spot it here: “One of the highlight…

The Pew Charitable Trusts has an encouraging study out on “The Changing State of Recidivism: Fewer People Going Back to Prison.” The study analyzes trends in recidivism…

When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, my friends and I used to take a grim sort of pride in the fact that, however far our hometown…

Last week I quoted glowing endorsements of Supreme Court nominee Judge Kavanaugh by seven legal experts from across the ideological spectrum. Today, I want to add two more endorsements,…

When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, I was thrilled. I had read and admired his opinions for years, and, when people asked me what I…