In a 38-page decision dated August 21, but released today, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction against the Obama administration’s edict — in the form of a “Dear Colleagues” memo — that recipients of federal f…
Month: August 2016
Judicial Rebellion Against Voter ID
Like unruly schoolchildren using the presence of a substitute teacher as an opportunity to misbehave, in Veasey v. Abbott, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, has sent the jurisprudential equivalent of a spitball at the U.S. Supreme Court knowing that the deadlocked …
Red State, Blue Cities
Will the Texas model become a victim of its own success? John Steinbeck once called Texas “a mystique closely approximating a religion”—and today, the Lone Star State remains full of myth, mystery, and paradox. Yet, as Steinbeck also noted, “Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger…
George Will’s Epiphany
George Will is arguably the most prominent public intellectual on the right, and for over four decades the Pulitzer Prize-winner has provided erudite conservative commentary in his widely-syndicated newspaper column, in many books, and in journals such as National Review (for which he served as W…
George Will’s Constitution
George Will has enjoyed a long career as a public intellectual, an especially illustrious one for a Right-of-center figure. For over four decades, Will’s commentary has appeared in intellectual magazines and newspapers including National Review, the Washington Post, and Newsweek. He has many bo…