Posts from April 2014.
In the art of legal persuasion, how the issue is framed often determines how it is decided. And sometimes the issue itself is who decides or (as once presidentially put) who’s “the decider”.
The Supreme Court was the decider on April 22 when it held that the voters of the States may decide whether to prohibit affirmative action in state ...
How about visiting today's Oil Painters of America blog on "Paintings Curious Power to Connect".
Even the pouring rain during spring break college visiting can't dampen the enthusiasm for the architecture of Monticello and the University of Virginia. The architectural genius and polymath who sketched these designs and some 600 in total during his lifetime was the most accomplished visual thinker of all U.S. Presidents. Monticello is a ...
How does a judge decide a case? What law, facts, judicial temperament, political or other factors, tangible and intangible make a difference? There’s often no easy answer, no crystal ball prognostication. Multiply that by 9 in the case of the United States Supreme Court. The labels “conservative” and “liberal” are used as a shortcut ...