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In the wake of today's blockbuster decision in Haaland v. Brackeen  (upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act against constitutional chall...

By now, you've no doubt heard about the ongoing corruption controversy regarding Justice Thomas failing to disclose numerous financial...

As "qualified immunity" has become a more prominent target for criminal justice reformers, it has been noted by many that Justice ...

Greetings from Owatonna, Minnesota. I'm here at my in-laws house in the interregnum between a family wedding on the north shore last wee...

May is a quiet month for me. June and July and August? Less quiet. So I'm trying to get work done now before all the travel and teaching...

The Daily Caller floats a Clarence Thomas presidential run . Obviously, this is "clever, outside-the-box!" punditry at its most ri...

There's a feeling of freedom in the air, but it will dissipate as soon as I start working on my bar application in earnest. * * * Israel...

Jill and I typically don't really celebrate Valentine's Day (coming so soon after my birthday, we're all celebrated out). But I...

I don't have much to say aside from my endorsement of this post on Clarence Thomas and the myth of the "one most qualified" c...

Via PrawfsBlawg , I've come across a fascinating conference hosted by the N.Y.U. Journal of Law and Liberty on the "unknown Justic...

So how about the big game this weekend, eh? * * * Exonerated accused rapist forms a bond with the woman whose erroneous accusation put him...

There's a recent burbling of interest in the blogosphere about Black Conservativism, so I'd be remiss if I didn't link to some o...

An ideological history of the Supreme Court . It does show how the Court has notably tilted to the right over the past twenty years (since t...

It's from that most intriguing Supreme Court Justice: A system that does not hold individuals accountable for their harmful acts treats...

Leah Ward Sears, currently Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, has not been at the top of my personal Supreme Court lists, simply be...

Justice Thomas delivered the keynote address to a group of high school students who won an essay contest sponsored by the Bill of Rights In...

City of Chicago v. Morales , 527 U.S. 41 (1999), dealt with the constitutionally of a Chicago ordinance prohibiting "loitering". S...

My moderately famous (for me, anyway) posts on Black Conservatism have been reprinted on Racialicious : Black Conservatism Revisited today,...

Unsurprising . The article says what I suspected but was unsure of -- that both the orders of Justice Souter and Justice Thomas were routine...

This is a great article documenting the experiences of other Black law students at Yale around the time that Justice Clarence Thomas attend...