Mr. Bork. A shame that the USA did not benefit from your presence on the Supreme Court. ======== WSJ 1/2/2018 Robert Bork has been dead five years. But at a moment when the air is thick with reckless talk about a “constitutional crisis” if President Trump were to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Bork’s explanation for his firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox... Read more
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Obstruction of Justice? – WSJ
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Strassel, US ConstitutionNo one should be surprised that ‘they’ are not giving up easily. ===== WSJ 12/8/2017 K A Strassel Obstruction of Congress The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction- ofjustice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction— the coordinated effort to thwart congressional... Read more
The Right to Bear Arms
October 5 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, American Thought, US ConstitutionA very well written and thought out article on an important topic. ======= The Washington Post – Dec 9, 2015 Charles C. W. Cooke is a staff writer at National Review and the author of “The Conservatarian Manifesto.” When debating the wisdom of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, the media tends to start from the presumption that the question is purely scientific, and that the... Read more
James Madison Weeps
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US ConstitutionWSJ Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET ‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government,” wrote Ben Franklin. “When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” Imagine what Franklin, James Madison and the other Founders would make of a new Brookings Institution survey showing that American college students have no clue what... Read more
I’m Not Sure I Like the Ship That Just Left the Dock
June 18 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Special Counsel, US ConstitutionI am nervous about this, to say the least. ======== WSJ 6/17/2017 That didn’t take long. Barely a week after James Comey admitted leaking a memo to tee up a special counsel against Donald Trump, multiple news reports based on leaks confirm that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the President for obstruction of justice. You don’t have to be a Trump partisan... Read more
The 25th Amendment? Forget It
May 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Trump, US ConstitutionInteresting, indeed. I cannot remember this section of the 25th Amendment. ====== WSJ 5/19/2017 By Brian C. Kalt Interest in Section 4 of the 25th Amendment is peaking. Multiple amateur constitutional scholars have advocated its use to remove President Trump from office, as an alternative to impeachment. But Section 4 is a tool for a different job. Its use under today’s circumstances has the... Read more
