Your Guide to This Year’s Constitutional Cases From SCOTUS — Part I
The Supreme Court issued both liberal and constitutionalist decisions.
The Supreme Court’s New Decision on ‘Taking Property’
The justices unanimously ruled that keeping the entire tax-sale proceeds was unconstitutional.
Understanding the Constitution: Why it doesn’t protect the unborn
As Justice Samuel Alito pointed out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (pdf)—and as the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia said repeatedly—the Fifth and 14th Amendment Due Process Clauses really have nothing to do with abortion.
What does “Due Process of Law” mean? Hint: SCOTUS had it wrong: It’s irrelevant to same-sex marriage
Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in The American Thinker. The Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution each has a Due Process Clause. The Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause prohibited the federal government from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” The Fourteenth Amendment extended that […]
Can Treaties Override the Constitution? An Issue Posed By Bond v. United States
One of the most common questions posed to me when I discuss the Constitution on talk radio is “Can a treaty override the Constitution?” The question has arisen particularly in view of the pending Supreme Court case of Bond v. United States. In that case, Congress is claiming a power under the Treaty Clause that […]
