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  • Justice Ginsburg Hints at Outcome of Supreme Court’s Biggest Cases

    Justice Ginsburg Hints at Outcome of Supreme Court’s Biggest Cases0

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that the Supreme Court is deeply divided over its most-watched cases, hinting that a series of 5-4 decisions are likely as the court approaches the end of its current term. Ginsburg said to the 2nd Circuit Judicial Conference the court was unlikely to achieve consensus on several high-profile matters.

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  • Justice Ginsburg Calls Kavanaugh Hearings a ‘Highly Partisan Show’

    Justice Ginsburg Calls Kavanaugh Hearings a ‘Highly Partisan Show’0

    Speaking on September 12th before the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association at the George Washington University Law School, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked how she would compare her Supreme Court nomination process to Bret Kavanaugh’s. The 85 year old Justice minced no words when she said, “The way it was, was right. The

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  • Justice for the V*ccine-Injured: A Ray of Hope?

    Justice for the V*ccine-Injured: A Ray of Hope?0

    A government’s treatment of the most vulnerable is a sound test of its morality. Unfortunately, one need look no further than our government’s treatment of the group of Americans suffering from serious, often debilitating, adverse events following Covid-19 vaccination to determine that Capitol Hill’s moral compass is indeed broken. These Americans “did the right thing”

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  • Justice Department: No More Bankrolling of Liberal Activists

    Justice Department: No More Bankrolling of Liberal Activists0

    On June 5, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions prohibited Justice Department lawyers from diverting legal settlement funds to special interest groups outside the government that were neither victims of any wrongdoing, nor parties to such lawsuits. As legal commentator Walter Olson notes, “This is terrific news and a major step forward in [respecting] the constitutional

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  • Justice Clarence Thomas On Why Our Government is ‘Broken’

    Justice Clarence Thomas On Why Our Government is ‘Broken’0

    Justice Clarence Thomas has earned a reputation for saying very little on the Supreme Court bench. He made an exception on Wednesday evening at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Thomas, who was confirmed in 1991 after a messy confirmation, described Washington, D.C, as a ‘broken’ place: [T]his city is broken in some ways.

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  • Justice and ‘Social Justice’: Two Very Different Things

    Justice and ‘Social Justice’: Two Very Different Things0

    Recently, Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen wrote in the Washington Post of “The most important phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance” — “with liberty and justice for all.” Allen recognized that justice required “equality before the law” and that freedom exists “only when it is for everyone.” But she confused democracy — defined as progressives “build[ing] a distributed

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