2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (534+ words) Obsessive Deconstruction in the West The quintessential struggle for those who wish to maintain and preserve great works of art, history as it actually unfolded, and all other affairs of humankind is that deconstructionists can act boldly and swiftly, often…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (553+ words) On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in Missouri's controversial redistricting battle, backing the Missouri Supreme Court's decision that the state could not use a congressional map drafted by the state's Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year....

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (18+ words) The Secretary of State was subject to dueling injunctions from state and federal court. It was a lose-lose....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (13+ words) Justice Kavanaugh rules against Missouri twice, likely without even reading all the papers....

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (287+ words) On Wednesday, the dispute over congressional redistricting in Missouri returned to the Supreme Court’s interim docket, when opponents of the state’s new map, which favors Republicans, once more asked the justices to prevent it from being used in November’s elections....

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (338+ words) We've been waiting for years for something like Viramontes to come before the Supreme Court. While a few years ago, the outcome might have been more in doubt, the Supreme Court of today looks little like the one that decided…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (133+ words) Sarah Isgur and David French discuss Supreme Court updates on two cases: preferred advertising rates for political committees and Missouri’s congressional districts. Then, Judge Jeff Sutton, chief judge of the 6th Circuit and No. 1 AO judicial crush, and Neil Weare, co-director…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (334+ words) Abha Khanna, the lawyer representing the opponents of the map, told the justices that the order by Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark “has been in place for mere hours, but the chaos it guarantees has already taken root.” The fast-moving…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (353+ words) The cases of Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins are, in essence, one and the same. They challenge assault weapon bans in Illinois and Connecticut, respectively, and they're perhaps set to be one of the most important Supreme Court decisions…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (489+ words) The operative part of the Second Amendment is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Yet bearing arms — the act of actually carrying them on your person — is treated like a privilege in…...