There should be no surprise that former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers was found among the street demonstrators in Chicago who succeeded in shutting down Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign rally this week. What is going on? The Donald can be polarizing — sometimes inviting raucous response. But the real problem that gave rise to Trump is intolerance and the Read More ›
There should be no surprise that former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, who played a role in launching the political career of Barack Obama, was found among the street demonstrators in Chicago who succeeded in forcefully disrupting and shutting down Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign rally on March 11, injuring two police officers who were trying to maintain order. When Read More ›
Last year, the Canadian Supreme Court created a right to euthanasia and assisted suicide. To qualify for death, the court ruled unanimously, one must be a competent adult with a medically diagnosed condition causing “irremediable suffering”—a circumstance wholly determined by the patient and including “psychological suffering.” The decision went well beyond mere legalization. Indeed, the court manufactured an enforceable legal right for qualified patients Read More ›
This article appears in the Fall, 2015 issue of the legal journal Trinity Law Review, Vol. 21 (1), pp. 130-233, published by Trinity Law School. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Introduction The teaching of biological origins in public schools is a contentious and highly debated area of the law. If there is any fixed star of Read More ›
The year 2015 will go down in history either as euthanasia’s high water mark before the ebb, or the time when the culture of death reached a tipping point and began an implacable march across Western Civilization. In October, the worst news came out of Canada, where that country’s Supreme Court trampled democratic deliberation by unanimously conjuring a charter right Read More ›
Frustrated by its unsuccessful attempt to access the contents of an iPhone 5c that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooting suspects in December, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has obtained a court order requiring Apple’s cooperation. Apple intends to fight it. Although the FBI insists this is an exceptional request, limited to a single iPhone, in fact Read More ›
A critic of the French Revolution, Joseph de Maistre, is said to be first to proclaim that “a country gets the government it deserves.” The same observation actually was made much earlier by numerous figures in the Bible. And what was true about ancient rulers and kings is probably just as germane to democracies like the United States today. In Read More ›
Obsession with the extent and legal culpability of Hillary Clinton in her handling of classified information as secretary of state through a private, home-based and unsecure email server makes for intrigue and anticipation of a perp-walk indictment and ensuing political drama. But it misses the mark on what voters need to understand. Clinton’s repeated claims that she neither received nor Read More ›