On occasion, my home state Utah manages to find its way into the news, but often only for the goofy or laughable reasons. (There is the exception of the 2002 Winter Olympics, which went off without too much of a hitch.) The legislative session provides a great place for some of the laughable. As one […]
School Uniforms: Constitutional Infringement of Free Speech?
March 26, 2010 by
Well, are they? A friend (not a lawyer) corrected me when I mentioned that kids don’t have full First Amendment rights of free speech saying that “but their parents do and forcing kids to wear school uniforms without their parents’ consent may be unconstitutional.” So….now I’ve got to look it up. What do you think?
HCR and the Constitution: procedural problems?
March 22, 2010 by
I get a lot of questions from my friends about the HCR bill that just passed. What happened? might be a good what to sum up most of the questions. They are confused about how it passed (not to mention about why the Congress would pass something that seems so unpopular…but that’s another issue altogether), […]
Christianity and the Common Law
February 23, 2010 by
Of all my posts, the question I tweeted a few weeks back about Christianity and the common law has gotten the most views, much to my surprise. Despite the attention, I have no idea whether Christianity is a part of the American legal system’s common law. Justice and mercy, and crime and punishment, the language […]
“Live Free, or Die Hard,” or Big Brother is watching? The Brave New World of cell phone tapping. PART I
February 16, 2010 by
Among the coolest of gadgets are those which use an internal GPS device to tell you where you are on the map. I use one in my phone and, thanks to an app from Google that I downloaded for free, it allows me to pinpoint my location, pin it on a map, and plot out […]
Kabuki or dissent?
February 1, 2010 by
New York Times writer Linda Greenhouse has an interesting analysis of Justice Scalia’s criticism of Chief Justice Robert’s opinion in Citizens United. In the campaign finance case, he accused Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. of “faux judicial modesty” for writing an opinion that in Justice Scalia’s view effectively overturned the court’s 2003 campaign finance decision […]
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