My notes on politics, law and language: If the message is jumbled no one cares about the economic plan. But to have an unjumbled message is not so easy. To state and receive any message depends on a shared vocabulary, shared cultural values, shared political understandings, differences which are recognized because the underlying foundations of…
I stand with Riley Gaines. Normally this website is a vehicle for me to present topics I think are something more than the politics of the day. I avoid snarky exchanges, commentary that will be old by next week. I present my Christian poetry, themed by the Book of Revelation. I present poetry from a…
In July, September, October and December, 2020, expressing my postmillennial idealism, I posted commentaries on the case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, with further commentaries on related cases. Citizens United, its antecedents and its progeny, deal with political and election finance, but more…
On July 24, September 26 and October 27, 2020, expressing my postmillennial idealism, I posted commentaries on the case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, with further commentaries on related cases. Citizens United, its judicial antecedents and its progeny, most specifically deal with the…
A Christian Idealist’s Guide to Election Finance Cases (Part 3) On July 24 and September 26, 2020, I posted commentaries on the case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), and related cases about election finance issues. This is a continuation of that commentary,…
Related Election Finance Cases Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a well-known or notorious case about election finance, corporate donations and politics. It was rightly decided. I posted extended commentary on Citizens United on July 24, 2020. This post is part II, discussing some pertinent election finance cases which were…
The Covid-19 Lockdown is dead
In which we remember, we seek a Holy City. I am a lawyer. I should be capable with words. I am a writer. I should be skilled with language. But I have few good words, few adequate descriptions to offer for describing the interior life of my soul. What can I say? The invisible God…
QUESTIONS and OBSERVATIONS The sudden onset of Coronavirus has created a ‘pandemic’ of new legislative acts, laws, rules and rulings, which would be challenging to grasp if done at ordinary speed. At these speeds, it’s bewildering, even as to a subset of relevant Coronavirus law in the employment arena. By way of background, on March…
Recently, in the wake of the Parkland shootings, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Below is my posted response. The real purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to prevent the federal government from disarming the states. It was,…