Archive for 2020

OPEN THREAD: Use your time wisely.

THEY DIG QUITE A MEMORY HOLE AT THE ATLANTIC:

NOW OUT FROM CHARLENE OESTERLING: A Pinhole of Light.

ILYA SOMIN: Pitfalls of Statutory Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices. I don’t know if term limits are a good idea, but I’m sure they can’t legitimately be done by statute.

I think we’d be better off going to an elected Supreme Court than going to term limits.

WHAT??? HUMANIST GROUP SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN SPEECH: The American Humanist Association (AHA) has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski.

The case was originally filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of former Georgia Gwinnett College student Chike Uzuegbunam, who was twice denied his right to share his Christian faith with other students on campus. This case could be among the first Judge Amy Coney Barrett hears as a Supreme Court justice.

This kind of legal cooperation on a constitutional issue between groups that come from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum used to be not at all uncommon, but has become all but unknown more recently.

Let’s hope for everybody’s sake we see more of this level of cooperation, initiated by both sides, because everybody has a stake in defending First Amendment liberties. And don’t miss the superb video produced by ADF. Our side needs much more such creative professionalism in presentation.