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16 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby case continues to reverberate in legal and political circles, with seemingly every angle of the majority’s bizarre decision being scrutinized, defended, and ridiculed. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
This week, the Trustees of the Social Security Administration issued their annual report on the state of Social Security’s finances. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
The New York Times’s new “Upshot” section provides useful evidence-based reporting about current political and economic issues. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
The Buchanan/Dorf argument, therefore, amounts to saying that the President must spend as Congress ordered him to spend—neither more nor less than the law requires, on the projects for which Congress appropriated funds. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
Similarly, when people respond to the Buchanan-Dorf suggestion that the President (reluctantly) issue sufficient debt beyond the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on the government’s obligations, they often ignore the context, asserting—as if it were a major insight—the trivial fact that the Constitution gives only Congress and not the President the power to authorize debt. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 12:46 pm
by Neil H. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 8:05 am
(The remarks that follow assume one has read Neil H. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 8:59 am
.-- Posted by Neil H. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm
In my most recent column here on Verdict, I asked whether there is anything that the most extreme conservatives who are currently running the Republican Party could do that would finally convince the slightly-less extreme conservatives to leave the party. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
There is an old saying that Social Security is the third rail of American politics: touch it and die. [read post]
26 May 2015, 9:00 pm
Last week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
After a dramatic slowdown in policing activity in New York City over the past few weeks, The New York Times reported yesterday that things are now pretty much returning to normal. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
After a dramatic slowdown in policing activity in New York City over the past few weeks, The New York Times reported yesterday that things are now pretty much returning to normal. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
In September of 2014, I wrote a column here on Justia’s Verdict, “The Road Show Blaming Teachers for Society’s Ills Moves from California to New York,” describing a well-funded lobbying campaign that is trying to use the supposed crisis in public education to reduce or eliminate tenure for schoolteachers. [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm
On March 27th of this year, the current laws that allow the federal government to operate will expire. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
Why would anyone voluntarily leave a fulfilling, stable, important job? [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Earlier this year, Republicans could barely contain their glee, as they attempted to claim that the Obama Administration was being engulfed in three “scandals”: (1) claims that the deaths of four diplomats in Benghazi, Libya were caused by the Administration’s incompetence (or worse), (2) the revelations of widespread surveillance of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Administration, and (3) the admission by the IRS that it had used some popular conservative… [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm
For far too many people in the United States, the issue of “illegal immigration” evokes visions of people crossing the border from Mexico, intent on taking American jobs and using government services without paying taxes. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
Back in June, a California superior court judge declared that a group of state laws governing the employment of public school teachers is unconstitutional. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
In my most recent Verdict column, I described the cynical game that congressional Republicans have been playing with the Internal Revenue Service for at least the last two decades. [read post]
