President Biden last week announced the formation of a bipartisan commission to study various reforms to the Supreme Court. Chief among the possibilities, and seized upon by conservatives as the entire reason for the exercise, is the idea of increasing the number of justices to twelve or even fifteen, pejoratively referred to as “packing” the … Continue reading How to Reform the Supreme Court

When I was growing up, my family and I were American Bedouins, briefly rooted, then moving on. We were children and I suspect our parents were too, though to us they were gods who determined our fate. In their first fourteen years of marriage they would have ten different homes. My father was a salesman … Continue reading The Longest Home

Hypocrisy is commonplace in our politics, but usually politicians attempt to maintain at least the appearance of logical consistency between their public pronouncements and their cherished ideological positions. Not so Mitch McConnell, who issued a statement yesterday decrying the fact that several corporations, along with Major League Baseball, have taken action or commented negatively on Georgia’s new, … Continue reading McConnell’s “Parallel Government”