Some brouhaha was stirred last week by an op-ed in the New York Times by Georgetown University law professor Louis Michael Seidman entitled Let’s Give Up on the Constitution. Of course, the Times did not print my letter to the editor on the article, but did print some excellent rebuttals, including one by none other than Laurence Tribe of Harvard. In his letter Professor Tribe | Read More »
In a recent piece in the New York Times, Professor Sanford Levinson bewailed our Imbecilic Constitution. In his article Professor Levinson claimed that “critics across the spectrum call the American political system dysfunctional, even pathological. What they don’t mention, though, is the role of the Constitution itself in generating the pathology. … Our vaunted system of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” … means | Read More »
Americans who respect the Constitution have been heartened by the oral arguments in the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of Obamacare. Based on the thrust of the questioning and comments by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Scalia and Alito, there is good reason to hope that not only will the individual mandate be ruled unconstitutional, but that as a result the entire 2,700 page | Read More »
Now even the New York Times is reporting on the phenomenon of “anchor babies” or “birthright citizenship,” where women come to the United States to give birth so that their babies can claim automatic citizenship under the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment. The story reports on a home in San Gabriel, California which housed expectant Chinese women who paid $9,000 | Read More »
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