Our Judicial Branch Has a Legitimacy Problem
At what point will lost trust, turn into lost consent, and what will that look like?
Penumbra
We Would Have Never Agreed to This, Had We Known Where It Led
Over the past century, we’ve embarked on a number of noble initiatives to improve the world in which we live. But in the true spirit of “never let a crisis (or opportunity) go to waste,” the leftists have managed to subvert all of these pursuits.
Will We Keep Our Republic?
Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it.
A Layman’s Guide to Penumbral Reasoning
Penumbral reasoning is absurd for contract law, and it’s also absurd for constitutional law. If the words don’t have concrete meanings, the documents they are written on become meaningless.
The Real Constitutional Crisis is Upon Us
What happens when the constitution is ignored rather than respected? In that case it will cease being a guarantee of our rights or a constraint on government overreach. That will be a true Constitutional crisis.
It’s The Thomas Court Now
John Roberts’ fatal error has been attempting to defend his court, while undermining the Constitution that gives his court legitimacy.
A Layman’s Guide to Penumbral Reasoning
When a justice says they’re using penumbral reasoning, they’re admitting that the next thing they say is not actually written in the constitution.