As summer’s lease expired, and we began tuning ourselves up again for the fall, there was a need not to let slip from us the revelations brought forth in that late, remarkable season: The party of abortion, at the peak of its confidence, brooked no compromise; it rolled through the House committee with the Freedom … Read more
Congressman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) was not permitting himself to be deflected during the serious work of debating, line by line, the provisions in the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (H.R. 25). Hyde and his pro-life colleagues were offering resistance in the Committee on the Judiciary, and finding every one of their amendments blocked by the … Read more
With the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the country came to the threshold of a momentous decision to forbid racial discrimination in places of “public accommodation.” But the most celebrated jurists and professors of law had to flex their genius now to explain just how the federal government could move past the States and reach … Read more
During those dark, mean days, in the summer of 1987, when Robert Bork was confronting the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, there was only one moment in which I was seized with the wish to trade places with Bork. The occasion came when Bork was being questioned by that doctor of laws, Chairman Joseph Biden … Read more
Henry James described, in one of his stories, a procession on a Sunday in Rome at St. Peters’. “The bright immensity of the place,” he wrote, “protected conversation and even gossip. It struck one not as a particular temple, but as formed by the very walls of the faith that has no small pruderies to … Read more