February 26, 2015

Lawyers Aren't Waifs

On January 20, 2015, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Yulee v. The Florida Bar, a First Amendment challenge to Florida’s prohibition on contributions to judicial candidates. The defendant in this case, Lanell Williams-Yulee, a can...

July 28, 2014

Halbig's Critics Miss the Mark

In Halbig v. Burwell, the federal appellate court for the District of Columbia (“D.C.  Circuit”) interpreted a clause in the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) to mean exactly what it would mean to the average reader. The ...

July 17, 2014

Faux Outrage and a Real Threat to Liberty

The left has ardently objected to the Hobby Lobby decision, allegedly due to concern about women’s access to healthcare.  However, their recent actions have forced people to wonder: are some of the critics more concerned with providing wom...

June 30, 2012

Turning ObamaCare's Lemons into Federalist Lemonade

Keep your heads up.  Defenders of the health care law are going to continue to spike the football as if the Supreme Court vindicated their ideas and repudiated conservative ones.  But that is not what happened.  In the long run, conser...

June 10, 2012

Religious Thought and the HHS Mandate

Arguments regarding the role of religious thought in public debates have returned to the spotlight in the controversy surrounding the administration's abortifacient, sterilization, and contraceptive mandate.  Defenders of that mandate have argue...

May 13, 2012

Demonizing Conservative Thought

The president has adopted an electoral strategy of demonizing conservative thought.  In a now-infamous speech, President Obama referred to his conservative opponents as "stuck in the past," and as "naysayers" who "don't believe in the future." ...