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 it had been early in Maryland’s fou
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
Not surprising and not good. In new hot mic audio obtained by Rolling Stone, Peggy Nienaber, executive director of Liberty Counsel’s 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….b
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 same thing. I know that Paul has made this point
It’s common around there to argue that the Court should have more people who didn’t attend elite law schools. I agree. I also agree that presidents should, as they once did, seriously cons
This is the grave of Charles Whittaker. Born in 1901 on a farm outside of Troy, Kansas, there was little about Whittaker’s youth that suggested where he would end up. His father ran the farm and
If there’s one thing that unites all Republicans is that workers should have no rights at all. That leads to the annual chipping away of labor rights at the Supreme Court. This year looks like a