Justice Scalia Questions Texan's Latin And How to Say Voir Dire In Texas

I still am getting chuckle out this today .See Texan-Latin at the U.S. Supreme Court

Minnesota Anti Bullying Bill Most Overbroad And 1st Amendment Crushing In Some Time

The mind boggles a the amount of amendments this things needs. See Minnesota Bill to Ban K-12 Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Support...

Piers Morgan Wants To Drastically Expand Gun Ownership RIGHTS - Says Let It Be Like Cars

Piers tweeted : If Americans are happy to accept all the laws/insurance/regulations to own a car, why not a gun? I am not sure this was Pier...

Howard Kurtz Reminds Us Again In Gun Control Fight Why Citizens United Is Needed Counterweight to Media

This past year we have seen the media put " religious liberty " in scare quotes and frame the HHS contraception mandate as fight o...

Will Movement For More Gun Control Result In Less Gun Laws In the End

I was twittering with Grant Gallicho who is an  associate editor of Commonweal magazine, about the background that led the Louisiana voters...

Faith Leaders Opposed To Citizens United - Are They Against Freedom of Religion for Corporations ?

Stand Firm takes on a group of Faith Leaders that seem all concern about the  Citizen United Supreme Court case  and matters that touch on...

Religious Folks Should Embrace Corporations as Persons - The Naked Private Square

Mirrors of Justice has links to two good law papers at Colombo, "The Naked Private Square" . That deals with the religious free e...

Three Cheers For Citizens United - More Speech Did Well

Or as Ann Althouse pointed out here ...... So much money is spent that no one is big enough to be big. Everyone — all the way up to Sheldo...

Is the Washington D.C. Catholic Red Mass A Threat To American Democracy ?

President John F. Kennedy Departs Church After Attending 1961 Red Mass Non Catholic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and  non Catholic Chief...

Church Property Action Or Lack There of At U.S. Supreme Court- New Orleans Louisiana Presbyterian Case

I am follow a good bit the interesting Church Property litigation that is happening across the country. Right now a good bit of the action i...

The U.S. Supreme Court Goes To Mass- 2012 Red Mass Photos and Text

Photos by AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The United States Supreme Court kicked off is term today. However yesterday a good many Justices attende...

Original Meaning Versus Founder's Intent As To The First Amendment ( Updated )

Update- A comment to this post wanted me to bring forth a point of qualification and clarity. While often this discussion is framed as to wh...

How Republican Appointed Judges Became More Pro Life Friendly On Abortion Issues

Mirrors of Justice here links a good article talking how the Judges appointed by the GOP after the Nixon era became more pro life friendly ...

How Freedom of Association in the First Amendment Got Weakened

This is an important article at First Things. See Freedom By Association -Neglect of the full scope of the First Amendment diminishes our ri...