This is the grave of Benjamin Cardozo. Born in 1870 in New York, Cardozo grew up in an elite Jewish family. In fact, his cousin was Emma Lazarus, who wrote the poem that is on the Statue of Liberty, and he was named for his...
Supreme Court
This is one of these fascinating Court cases that don't fall on typical partisan lines but which, to me at least, seems to have a pretty fantastic upshot. The Supreme.
There's nothing in this in depth ProPublica report on Clarence Thomas' unbelievable levels of corruption that really surprise. That's because there is nothing about Thomas that would surprise us. I.
This is the grave of Stanley Matthews. Born in 1824 in Cincinnati, Matthews' family was evidently pretty well off in Porkopolis. He was able to attend Kenyon College, graduating in 1840. This was pretty late in the period where young people went to college when...
I recently read Charles Blow's new book, where he urges Black northerners to move back South to concentrate their political power. It's a super book and LGM readers should check.
This is the grave of Roger Taney. Born in 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, Taney grew up in the Catholic elite of Maryland. That was a lot less powerful than.
This is the grave of Thomas Todd. Born in King and Queen County, Virginia in 1765, Todd grew up in the Virginia elite but a downwardly mobile part of it. Slaver, yes, but also not super duper wealthy after dad blew the family fortune and...
It turns out that rule by six extremist Opus Dei judges is not exactly making the American public feel warm and cozy about the Supreme Court. Perhaps the biggest obstacle.
Not surprising and not good. In new hot mic audio obtained by Rolling Stone, Peggy Nienaber, executive director of Liberty Counsel鈥檚 D.C. ministry, bragged about praying with Supreme Court Justices.
The Times might be waking up to just what the Opus Dei Court has up its sleeve, noting that nothing is more settled in the legal world than that Lochner was one of the worst cases of all time....but that maybe the current Court actually...
Since the Opus Dei Court is going all-in for destroying any democratic accountability and implementing their vision of how great things were in 1950 despite no knowledge about actual life.
Breyer is finally giving up the Court ghost. Thank God. Now, in order to make the Court at least not get worse, Sotomayor and Kagan both need to do the.