Should we amend the Constitution to “correct” our officials’ failure to honor it? Earlier this month, Texas governor Greg Abbott generated national attention when he urged the Texas Legislature to formally call for a “convention of states” pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution,…
Month: January 2016
The Flint Blame Game
Who is “really” responsible for this once-proud city’s awful predicament? For the past few weeks, liberals have sought to blame Republican governor Rick Snyder for the lead contamination plaguing Flint, Michigan’s municipal water supply. In office since 2011, Snyder has publicly expressed…
Texas Has a Plan
Proposals for a “convention of the states” roil the Left and Right. Texas Governor Greg Abbott made news early this month when he advocated an Article V convention of states to amend the U.S. Constitution to rein in the overreaching federal government, and restore the proper balance of power …
The Fertility God of Conservatism
It is hard to imagine what the world of a conservative intellectual looked like in 1953. In our present age of talk radio (led by Rush Limbaugh), Fox News, national conservative magazines and blogs, and the New York-D.C. axis of Right-leaning think tanks, we regard the conservative movement as ub…
Legitimate Judicial Candidates Must Be ‘Judicious’
Texas is an unusual state in many respects: the largest of the contiguous United States; home of three of America’s ten most populous cities; the biggest producer of oil, beef, cotton, and wool in the U.S.; the best economic climate; one of the few states to exist as a sovereign nation (1836-18…
Abood Back in the Cross Hairs
On Monday, January 11, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a potentially momentous case that challenges the constitutionality of “agency shop” clauses in public-sector union contracts, which require all employees in the bargaining u…
Whats in a Name?
Trial lawyers make a cynical play for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 9 This is another post on the races currently underway for three seats on the Texas Supreme Court. I have previously written (here and here) about the race between incumbent Justice Debra Lehrmann and challenger Justice Michael …