As I prepare to leave Idaho, and particularly Pocatello, I have been borderline maudlin. It is time to go, and new adventures are calling, but…
Before leaving for Patagonia last December, I was in limbo regarding whether to continue my part-time legal consulting and mediation practice.…
How often do you discover that something you believed was true is simply not the case? Take cork, for instance. For years, I harbored the beli…
Apparently, “The Art of the Deal” (when it comes to Trump) is that you blow up a solid treaty with Iran because it was brokered when Obama was…
If you are a bit stuffy, you might consider me inappropriate for commingling a memorial with other people, but Ralph will forgive me because h…
I have returned to the United States grudgingly after having been gone six months. During that time, I spent a month in the Patagonia region, …
It takes guts to challenge a sitting judge. The power of incumbency is hard to overcome, and in many instances, the public is not well-informe…
The Supreme Court last week delivered in Callais v. Louisiana, a ruling that demolished the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely characterized as the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement for its essential role as the statutory enforcement mechanism for breathing life into the 15th Amendment guarantee of Black voting rights, and its pursuit of racially equal electoral opportunity, a fair chance for representation and democracy. The 15th Amendment declares that a citizen’s right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The amendment vests in Congress sweeping authority to pass “appropriate legislation” to enforce it, which it exercised in enacting the historic Voting Rights Act. the court’s ruling gutted a core part of the statute and will have the effect of excluding people of color from the political process.
Oh, Brother Bill, “wherefore art thou?” I have spent the last month thinking about the horrific passing of Bill Bacon. The question plaguing m…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office on Monday invoked an upcoming landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the role of race in drawing congressio…
