[Cross-posted to Political Context ] To Senators Roberts and Moran and Representative Pompeo, Sometime in the next week or so, Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
[Cross-posted to Political Context ] This morning the word came down from the Supreme Court: in the matter of Shelby County v. Holder , the landmark (and often-renewed) 1965 law, the Voting Rights Ac…
Last week our governor, Sam Brownback, signed into a law a bill titled "The Second Amendment Protection Act," which the bill's proponents trumpeted as "the strictest Second Amendm…
Richard Posner has written a defense of the Electoral College , which is one of the several elements of our national Constitution which I don't like. I read his defense of the EC last night, and …
Writing a book on current events is a complicated crap-shoot. In an age of blogs, social media, and basically instantaneous communication, to write and get published a book that examines in depth a c…
[Cross-posted to Political Context ] So, it's been more than a week since the Supreme Court, against my expectations , upheld the Affordable Care Act by issuing a 5-4 decision in NFIB v. Sebelius…
[Cross-posted to Political Context ] The Supreme Court will almost certainly hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this Thursday. I'm going to be out of town …
[Cross-posted to Political Context ] In two days time, I'll be speaking at an event organized by We the People of Kansas, titled " Is Democracy for Sale? " It's an officially non-pa…
