Things Have Changed

We spend summers in Maine, returning to Arizona in October  Last September I started seeing lots of posts in my Facebook feed from a guy nam...

The United State Supreme Court assembled for the first time on February 2, 1790 at the Royal Exchange Building in New York City.  The initia...

THC graduated from Boston College Law School in 1976.  In retrospect I now realize that BC Law was near the end of its transition from a tra...

A mere builder of more industrial plants, a creator of more railroad systems, and organizer of more corporations, is as likely to be a dange...

The Supreme Court recently held oral arguments on the affirmative action programs of Harvard and the University of North Carolina which, at ...

With the Supreme Court's recent abortion decision there has been talk in both parties about potential Congressional action.  For the Dem...

Much of the oral argument in the abortion case currently being considered by the Supreme Court turned on the issue of when it is appropriate...

 I am now reading that a number of Democratic Senators are stating they will not meet with any Trump Supreme Court nominee since "they ...

"The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved...

"If there is one thing a defense lawyer knows, it's that the government can get you if it wants to.  Any government.  Federal, s...

I was struck by a passage in Justice Kennedy's concurring opinion in NIFLA v Becerra, the Supreme Court decision of last week striking d...

At least they did on this date in 1954: You can find the full text of the NY Times story here .  Oddly enough, despite popular belief, Bro...

THC didn't like Blurred Lines , the Robin Thicke hit, composed by Thicke and Pharrell Williams but is a little puzzled by the jury verd...

Yes, this is THC's Senator (though the phrase " callow youth " also comes to mind), Chris Murphy (D-CT) explaining away the wo...

THC was recently able to locate a rare copy of the out of print treatise, Law Of The Jungle , originally published at 4 National Lampoon 19...

It's been frequently noted that despite heated legal disagreements reflected in frequent 5-4 decisions on key issues, there has been an ...