"Words no longer have meaning" says Justice Scalia and he should know, being a major contributor to the vocabulary of Right Wing b...

Americans like words like Freedom and Liberty and perhaps because those ideas scare us so much. We are terrified of coercion by a government...

So nobody is going to write up today's SCOTUS decision?  You're leaving it to the simple lizard who is more or less beneath good and...

You can't tell what the Supreme Court is going to decide just by listening to the questions the justices ask and then convincing yoursel...

In Election Year 2000, Al Gore won the national vote by a plurality of over 2 million votes cast. The Bush campaign won the not so great St...

. . . is pornography. Well at least it has been according to orators at several Republican national conventions in recent memory. It'...

Seems like yesterday when criticizing George Bush was close enough to treason that the police would get involved. I remember people walkin...

Government of the people, by the people and for the people has perished from the earth and now lies decomposing in corporate boardrooms acro...

" Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again" said W.C. Fields. Surprisingly, our activist Supreme Court has be...

OK, so now I'm worried. I was willing to make some excuses for Obama's new support of offshore drilling; blaming it on previous ad...

"the Constitution does not oblige government to avoid any public acknowledgment of religion's role in society" said Suprem...

Only a year into Ronald Reagan's first term, some pundits were calling him a one-term president. Only hours into Bill Clinton's firs...

Yes, sir, I'm glad we have real men like Anton Scalia on the Supreme Court instead of some "activist" liberal pansy. Who but...

As a commenter below mentioned, the Supreme Court is about to revisit prior decisions that in some cases for as much as a century have been...

Boy, the way Glenn Miller played! Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! We should worry. There ...

At least while the remnants of Republican barbarism still control the court, the law is the law is the law; right or wrong . Is anyone still...

The Jeffrey Toobin article at CNN was only 55 seconds old when I read the comment claiming she "is just the person to carry this admi...