A theme in this blog has been that looking at the US Supreme Court only through the usual lens of party politics is a distortive lens: i.e. the Blue-Red Goggles (“BRGs” for short). If we put those BRGs aside, we can see a creative judicial process at work involving, for now, eight justices who are more three-dimensionally, more realistically ...
What does the Constitution actually say about the Supreme Court nomination/appointment process? After all, that is the main question, now that a nomination is made.
What process most upholds the Constitution?
Not: What process best serves a political party, or a President, or a Senator, or a candidate, or a nominee, or a future President. Those ...
Ideas of government matter in American history and recycle in different eras through different guises, styles and messengers. If we look past the obvious style/messenger/ personality differences between Silent Cal Coolidge and Non-Silent Donald Trump, we see some recycling going on. The Coolidge idea of democracy was summed up in his ...