WTF, SCOTUS?

Okay, so I haven't written a blog post in a while. I took a job teaching law to high school students in Los Angeles in the fall of 2021....

It's Thursday, February 18th. I'm sure that by now, you've heard that the Senate failed to convict Trump after his second impeachment...

It's really weird to be an American after January 6th, 2021. Before January 6th, I never once worried about whether or not we would have...

Okay, I wrote the first draft of this post back in June of 2020. I didn't post it then because I was in the middle of making some...

Today is November 26th, 2020: Thanksgiving Day. As I settle in for the night with a piece of pumpkin pie covered in whiskey sauce, I am...

Today is November 23, 2020. It's twenty days after Election Day, and sixteen days after the Associated Press called the election for Joe...

Today is November 14, 2020. It's eleven days after Election Day, and seven days after the Associated Press called the election for Joe...

It's been a rough couple of weeks. Not only did we lose a champion for women's and LGBT rights, but it seems like many Republicans in...

The news of Justice Ginsburg's passing hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew that she had been battling cancer. Heck, I sent her at...

Before I say anything else, I wanted to apologize for something. My producer pointed out to me that two blog posts ago, I used the term,...

It's hard to even know where to begin, so I'll begin by saying something I wish I didn't have to: the President of the United States...

I've read a lot of dystopian novels. 1984. Brave New World. The Handmaid's Tale. Stuff like that. But I never thought I'd be living...

Okay, so that was weird. I mean, not totally unexpected, but still weird. So the Senate impeachment trial played out pretty much how we...

So Donald Trump has been impeached. The articles of impeachment have been written and approved by the House. They were delivered to the...

So we're really doing this? We're really impeaching Donald Trump? I didn't think this day would come. But here we are. And so many...

I wrote and published this post originally in September of 2019, but in light of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings, I thought it...

The Kavanaugh hearings felt like a punch in the gut. Watching Dr. Ford's very credible testimony about Kavanaugh's attempted rape of...

When I first started this blog, I had this vision that I would get to read lots of Supreme Court decsions and then write about them for...

Oh, Donald Trump. You have given us so many sleepless nights, and so many unpleasant civics lessons. Like who knew that it was just a...

Okay, I know that talking about a possible member of the Supreme Court is kinda outside the scope of what I said this blog would be...