Category Archives: Current Affairs

Eavesdropping on a Conservative Trial by Conscience & Fire


[NOTE: Henry Olsen is a very conservative columnist; I would typically not look to him for political counsel.

Even so,there’s one politician Olsen likely understands much better than I could ever hope to, namely: Mike Pence. Continue reading Eavesdropping on a Conservative Trial by Conscience & Fire

The Scheme: The “Captured” Supreme Court Is Stealing Our Right to Jury Trials

 

Sheldon Whitehouse, in The Scheme:

Beyond protecting polluters, the [Supreme Court’s] Roberts Five have weakened antitrust protections, shielded corporate executives from shareholder suits, protected drug manufacturers from state tort laws, taken away fair pay protections from entire categories of workers, restricted class actions that redress low-dollar mass frauds (like adding a small wrongful charge to a million customers’ bills), and made it more difficult for individuals to sue companies that harmed them. Continue reading The Scheme: The “Captured” Supreme Court Is Stealing Our Right to Jury Trials

Rep. Jamie Raskin Diagnosed with Cancer

[NOTE: The Bible quote on my mind today— Ecclesiastes 8:11-14, in the Today’s English Version:
“Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is
not punished quickly enough. A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: `If you obey God, everything will be all right, but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God.’ But this is nonsense. Look at what happens in the world: sometimes righteous men get the punishment of the wicked, and wicked men get the reward of the righteous. I say it is useless.”]

New York Times Continue reading Rep. Jamie Raskin Diagnosed with Cancer

It’s Law! Dred Scott’s (In)Justice Taney is headed Outta the Capitol

Washington Post:

Biden signs bill to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author from Capitol

A bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney at the U.S. Capitol in March 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

By Amy B Wang and Marianna Sotomayor Continue reading It’s Law! Dred Scott’s (In)Justice Taney is headed Outta the Capitol