Friday, April 24, 2026

""Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"". Does this include a "geofence"?

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 The above is a quote from GK Chesterton ( see short video HERE ). Bottom line on the parameters for what constitutes a 4th Amendment search...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

IRAC Method of Case Briefing.

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I am not a lawyer; I just play one while sitting on my sofa. Apparently, this is a basic first-year law school technique that students learn...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

French President Macron is paging Machiavelli:‘To be free, one must be feared’

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I had to do a double-take when I read the headline in this article : ‘ To be free, one must be feared’ Here are a couple of excerpts from Ma...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

SCOTUS: Trump vs Cook and "INM" meaning

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I listened to the oral argument in " Trump v Cook ", the attempted firing of a member of the governing council of the US Federal R...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Capaciousness: A word I cannot live up to...

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Since retiring from teaching, I have become a student of the Supreme Court.  I am receiving a fairly comprehensive education in many respect...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The core consumer and elasticity: A visual representation of "Thinking at the Margin"

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The brief presentation above illustrates the concept of "relative elasticity," which is often implicit in articles describing sp...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Wondering what the "Tariff Case" (Learning Resources vs Trump) is all about? Can sum it up in one word...

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"regulate". Yup, that's about it.  What is the meaning of "regulate" in the context of the IEEP, Article 1 taxing au...

Say Hello to my fellow 65 year olds. You are going to see a lot of us for the next 30 years...

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While the graphic below is physically hard to read (it seems they could have made the differences a little more stark), the lesson it teache...

I won the lottery! Well, not THAT one. but The Supreme Court seat lottery.

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I was just notified that I "won" a guaranteed seat (through the Supreme Court pilot program to allocate public seats) to observe ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Birthright Citizenship: Reaching back into legal history. Blackstone edition...

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This recent scholarship on the issue of Birthright Citizenship is worth a read if you are interested in the topic.  It errs (with historical...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Even the Supreme Court wrestles with "Lie vs Lay"

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Supreme Court issues revisions of opinions when there are mistakes in spelling, grammar, or other relatively minor errors in construction....
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Declaration of Independence: More on the significance of "necessity" in the document

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The Declaration of Independence is one of my favorite documents.  In the course of learning about it, I have discovered that individual wor...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Bookmark: "Levels of Scrutiny" that laws can be subject to

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Below is from FINDLAW.   Edits/Highlighthing are mine What Are The Levels of Scrutiny? When the constitutionality of a law is challenged, bo...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship. Source of Original Debate in the Senate (May 30, 1866)

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 If you are interested in the primary source of the debate/discussion on birthright citizenship , below is that source. Starts in the center...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Happy Fathers Day....or is it?

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On any given day, I grade myself on a sliding scale from Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" to Dan Fogelberg's ...
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