Regulating child rape
Imagine a federal agency charged with the task of regulating the level of child rape in America. Like the Federal Reserve calculating interest rates, or the Food and Drug Administration deciding when...
View ArticleThe other issue in the Prop 8 trial
In every area of political life except the law, we find it easy to distinguish between the accomplishment and the means used to accomplish it. So what if Mussolini made the trains run on time? So what...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court's corporate political spending decision
Some things are too important to be left to democracy. Among them are elections. That was the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to invalidate democratically-enacted restrictions on...
View ArticleThe President versus the Supreme Court, just like James Madison planned it
Try this little experiment. Go into a courtroom. The Supreme Court's courtroom, ideally, but any courtroom will do. Sit in the front row in funny clothes and, as the judge is announcing a ruling from...
View ArticleNew Mexico's high rate of teenage pregnancy is a measure of New Mexico's high...
New Mexicans are almost used to bringing up the rear in comparisons of the states. It can begin to seem like fate. Only Mississippi has a greater percentage of babies born to teenaged mothers,...
View ArticleSex, abstinence education, and the threat of violence
Recently there's been a flurry of news and opinion pieces about teenage pregnancy and abstinence-only sex education, most of them assuming those are the same topic. Teenage motherhood rates in America...
View ArticleDo Supreme Court justices believe what they write in their opinions?
The question in the headline may sound insulting when asked about the Supreme Court, but it would hardly raise an eyebrow when asked about any other group of nine lawyers. When a criminal defense...
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