The Supreme Court today issued two important rulings in immigration cases. Both are important victories for the Trump administration. Both rulings are 6-3, with...
More than 571,000 current and retired federal employees owe $6.3 billion in taxes, a delinquency rate that has been increasing steadily despite threatening letters from the IRS.
June was a fateful time in America 250 years ago. The 13 colonies, still part of the British Empire, had been in rebellion for over a year, ever since fighting had erupted in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord. Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army had recently forced British troops out of the colonies, but […]
Some arguments that led to the redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 seemed to be common-sense, practical arguments. Supporters argued that legal recognition of marriage by same-sex couples would provide greater stability for same-sex couples, encourage marriage over cohabitation, and improve the well-being of sexual minorities. Many Americans found those arguments persuasive, even some of those […]
Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge overrode it under a practice Alabama subsequently abolished. Twenty-six years later, he is still alive — not because the courts […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. June 24, 1776 Everything is moving at the speed of […]
Raphael Lemkin gave the modern world its most terrifying word: “genocide.” A Polish-Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazis, he spent his life forcing governments to recognize that the deliberate destruction of a people was a unique crime — not just “war” or “atrocity,” but something worse. He helped drive the 1948 Genocide Convention, and he […]
