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Yes, Kamala Harris is eligible to be vice president | Opinion “Natural-born citizen" was a familiar legal phrase to the Framers—an adaptation of the English term "natural-born subject. Sir William Blackstone, an English treatise writer who (in Justice Scalia's words) was "the Framers'...

California shows its extremism, attacking democracy and capitalism at the same time California, through its education department, is attacking capitalism as well. As noted in a Wall Street Journal column by longtime education reformer Williamson Evers, the state’s draft “Ethnic Studies Model...

American Tariffs on China Are Being Blunted by Trade Cheats - WSJ “Billions of dollars worth of China-made goods subject to tariffs by the Trump administration in its trade fight with Beijing are dodging the China levies by entering the U.S. via other countries in Asia, especially Vietnam...

Star 102 Abruptly Stops Playing This Christmas Song. Here's Why Radio station pulls Baby It's Cold Outside "but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong...but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place." I am curious to know...

“Main Street Lexington is a volunteer business organization founded in 2013 with the goal of “re-establishing downtown Lexington as the vibrant economic and cultural nexus of our area.” Today, Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of the Red Hen restaurant, resigned her position as the group’s executive...

FACTS: " "The California Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act (FACT Act) was enacted to regulate crisis pregnancy centers—pro-life centers that offer pregnancy-relatedservices. The FACT Act requires clinics that primarily serve pregnant women to...

Read the Full Text of the Nunes Memo The full text of the memo can be read at the link above. Here is the stated purpose of the memo: 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2)...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-111_f314.pdf It’s my impression, but only an impression, there are at least 5 in the Court who desire the baker to prevail. Issues: 1. Is custom cake making for a wedding expressive conduct? 2. What if the cake included...

I am beginning the analysis from the assumed premise of those advocating for removal of Confederate statutes, the renaming of streets, and renaming of buildings, do so because the statutes, street names, and names of a buildings, refer to a man whose conduct promoted racial inequality and/or...

"The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would review the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his beliefs — a legal fight with high stakes for both religious activists and civil-rights advocates. Phillips couldn’t be reached for comment...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/29/californias-vaccination-requirement-is-constitutional-says-federal-court/?utm_term=.2fb850b50105 A reasonable outcome. An outcome I find palatable. The legal analysis appears strong to me.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/fifth-circuit-obama-immigration/415077/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/11/10/appeals-court-affirms-lower-court-ruling-against-obama-administration-immigration-policies/ A divided panel of the U.S. Court of...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/07/muslim-flight-attendant-suspended/71852754/ According to the information provided at the link, the airline initially accommodated the Muslim flight attendant by granting her an exemption from serving alcoholic beverages. However, the company...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-raised-minimum-wage-70-212850113.html Interesting. Of course, the potential issue with giving too much of a raise to lower skilled workers, employees with less experience, is abating if not reducing the incentive to achieve more, while perhaps inducing...

In a article at the Washington Post, an individual advocated for the revocation of doctors' medical licenses for their very specific and particular public denouncement of vaccination and remarks regarding measles and the measles vaccination. He begins his commentary with some examples, posted...

Dems: Thanks Ted Cruz And Mike Lee For The Extra Help Advancing Nominees Thanks Senator Teddy Cruz for exercising a complete lack of sagacity in knowing the proper time to bloviate. Smart timing!

It has been to my dismay to repeatedly read a lot of misinformation, by conservatives at this website, regarding Obama's recent immigration EO. I have read false characterizations of amnesty and de facto amnesty. Anyone familiar with the facts and the seemingly arcane law in this area will...

Here are a few articles making the argument Obama's EOs are lawful. But Margaret Stock, a Republican immigration lawyer and a Federalist Society member, notes that such accusations don’t appreciate that all this is fully authorized by those laws. "The Immigration and Nationality Act and other...

Supreme Court to hear <i>King v. Burwell</i> challenge to IRS tax credit rule - The Washington Post The issue is whether federal subsidies, formally known as the premium assistance credit amount, is applicable to those Exchanges established by the Secretary of Health. There are a few statutory...

The decision is from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and was 2-1. This decision doesn't surprise me as sometime ago over at the website, volokh conspiracy, some attorneys had the prescience to predict this outcome. Upon discovering the lawsuit, I decided to read the statute and, to my...