With its order in the Wheaton College case, the Supreme Court invited the federal government to develop a regulatory fix that might both satisfy the nonprofit challengers to the contraceptive coverage rule and at the same time guarantee that the women who work for those employers will continue to receive cost-free contraceptive coverage. [read post]

As itemized in the screed of a complaint filed by multiple states, the President opined at least ten times before his grant  to DREAMers in 2012 of deferred action, and work and travel permits, and nine times thereafter, that he lacked unilateral authority to address America’s dysfunctional immigration policies, that is, until he announced a series of Executive Actions (not Executive Orders) in the year’s penultimate month. [read post]

This was followed in 1929 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England’s declaration that women could be “qualified persons” (a term found in the British North America Act) for the purposes of who could be appointed to the Canadian Senate. [read post]