Readers who have been following my Bench Memos posts regarding transgender prisoner rights, or my recent article in The American Spectator, “The Delusion of Transgender Prisoner Rights,” may think my “canary in the coal mine” rhetoric was hyperbolic. No, it turns out to be understated. In…
Month: October 2015
The Delusion of Transgender Prisoner Rights
The “civil rights revolution” fought in the middle of the 20thcentury was a battle for the hearts and minds of the American public, as well as a political and legal campaign. The new medium of television brought pivotal events into America’s living room—everything from the soaring words o…
A Master of Judicial Activism Trains an Acolyte
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has been refining his craft as a liberal activist judge for 35 years, and in that time has become the indubitable master. For a budding activist judge, there is no better mentor. And in Judge Jon Tigar, of the U.S. Distr…