Category: Jury Duty
Should Non-Citizens Serve On Juries?
The California Assembly has passed a bill allowing non-citizens on juries. A reader asks: Is this constitutionally permissible?
Probably yes. Historically, English and American juries had to be composed of…
How Do We Interrogate Him?
How do we treat the suspect captured last night for the Boston Marathon bombing? If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old Chechen, is linked to international terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, federal…
Fed Court: Kids Can Buy Plan B Without Parental Permission
The controversy over Judge Edward Korman’s ruling on the Plan B “morning after pill” has us thinking not so much about the rights of women but rather the rights of…
Could Gay Marriage Be Good For Conservatives?
If the Supreme Court rules state gay-marriage bans are unconstitutional, the issue could go a couple of ways. Just as with Roe v. Wade and abortion, gay marriage could remain…
Same Sex Marriage And Democracy
As President Obama has acknowledged, people of goodwill occupy places on both sides of the marriage debate. Those goodwill perspectives deserve to be heard and debated—and they will be this…
Judging Marriage
This week the Supreme Court takes up same-sex marriage, amid shifting American mores and a healthy debate about equality. Yet the two cases before the High Court are less about…
Obama’s Judicial Hypocrisy
Senate Republicans used a filibuster last week to block the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Democrats are in full boil. President Obama denounced…
What Should US Do With Bin Laden’s Son In Law?
It’s been more than a decade since 9/11, but we still haven’t figured out how to treat captured terrorists. The latest evidence comes from the extradition of Osama bin Laden’s…
Voting Rights Debate: Is America Racist?
Liberals are jumping all over Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’scomment yesterday during an oral hearing in which he asked whether continuing the special enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act…
Progressives: Who Needs The Constitution?
In what reads like a parody of liberal thinking from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown Law School posits that we should ignore some parts of…
