The Seating of Hiram Revels and the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment

You know, I have told this story several times privately and it occurred to me that it was the perfect kind of thing for my blog, given my g...

Gloria Allred Hypocritically Tries to Get Limbaugh Prosecuted Under a Sexist Law

Update: Thanks for the linkage from Overlawyered , which correctly notes it might be "counterproductive" to give Ms. Allred additi...

Calling Bullshit on Ted Olson

In defending the recent ruling that apparently gay marriage is in the Fourteenth Amendment, and no one apparently discovered that for the fi...

Why Kennedy Probably Won’t Invalidate Proposition 8—A Response to James Taranto

James Taranto today said that he felt that Kennedy was principled enough that he would invalidate Proposition 8.  I have to disagree. First...

The Secret Feminist Purpose of Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment (Updated and Bumped!)

Speaking of apportionment and all that good stuff, there is also good reason to believe that Section Two of the 14th Amendment was designed ...