Browsing Posts published in June, 2012

All things considered, Thursday was almost a tolerable day for the Supreme Court. It doesn’t change my opinion about the court, but it does leave me appreciating the intelligence of Judge Roberts, who wrote an opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, despite his feeling that it is bad policy. And indeed his [...]

Mr. Higgs, where are you? Nobody seems to be able to find you. Do you have to be so furtive? Do you have to be so elusive? Our friends in white don’t know what to do? Oh, Mr. Higgs, won’t you come out one day. You are a queer kind of particle, hiding in your [...]

The Supreme Court Doubles Down by Ignoring the facts I actually don’t have that much trouble with the police checking folks immigration status when they arrest someone, so I don’t have much trouble with the Arizona decision that allows the law to mandate a check of immigration status. What I do have trouble with is [...]