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19 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
I offer here the text of a letter that current Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could have decided to write in response to the recent allegations that he sexually assaulted and attempted to rape a fifteen-year-old girl when he was a seventeen-year-old high school student.To the President, Members of the Senate, and the People of the United States of America,It has been my great honor to be nominated to join the United States Supreme Court as an Associate Justice. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat to enact their agenda, and Kavanaugh’s tag-teaming with Neil Gorsuch and the other extreme conservatives will guarantee that the small subset of Kennedy’s legacy that non-conservatives admired will be expeditiously erased. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
In a column published here on Verdict last week, I explained how Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is supposedly the bane of capitalists everywhere, in fact understands that modern capitalist economies can be much better than they are for the people who work and live in them.Warren certainly targets the bad acts of particular capitalists, but she does so in order to prevent them from continuing to pervert the economy for their own selfish ends. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 2:59 pm
Below the fold are the results of the 2018-2019 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
One of the continuing annoyances of the political conversation in the US is pundits’ insistent belief that both parties have become extreme in the Trump era. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
Amidst the now-typical blizzard of Trump-related fresh controversies this week was an announcement by the Treasury Secretary that his department might give another tax cut to wealthy investors. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 12:50 pm
Neil H. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Although “The Anthony Kennedy Show” has now been superseded by what will surely be an entertaining but entirely predictable renewal of “The Confirmation Show: Now Even More Evasive,” it is still valuable to consider Justice Kennedy’s hand in the Supreme Court’s hard-right turn that paid off so handsomely for conservative activists this year.In some ways, the most perversely interesting opinion that the Court’s Conservative Five handed down last month was in… [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
That Kennedy would deem it acceptable to be replaced by someone whom Trump will select based on the recommendations of the extremists who have taken over the party (and who gave the world a second Clarence Thomas in the person of Neil Gorsuch) is absolutely astonishing. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 3:30 am
Neil H. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
When the Supreme Court deviates from its usual efforts to avoid hearing tax cases, it is usually because the underlying issue is not truly about taxes. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
It is no mystery why it has been almost two years since I have written about Social Security here on Verdict. [read post]
16 May 2018, 9:01 pm
In 1991, for example, George H. [read post]
2 May 2018, 9:01 pm
Is there an affordable housing problem in major American cities? [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
More than twenty years ago, a new front in the culture wars opened up with a controversy over the decision by a fictional TV character, Murphy Brown, to have a baby while remaining single. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court has now heard oral arguments in two gerrymandering cases this term, and the world wonders whether Justice Anthony Kennedy will at last carry through on his suggestion in 2004’s Vieth v. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 1:00 am
, by Neil H. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
For now, the debate over taxes has subsided in this country. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
Note to Readers: As many of you know from having read other columns on Verdict this week, we lost our beloved friend Julie Hilden this past weekend. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
What happens when one political party decides to declare war on the nation’s tax collection agency? [read post]
