Posts from July 2022.
Summer has its rituals, its some-things-never-change continuities like a ballgame with a grandchild. Summer also has an annual ritual of the Scotus Nine announcing decisions before their vacations. But this year was different, really different. The 2022 term was about discontinuity, change and many unfinished issues.
While the leak of Dobbs ...
During his famous debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, a young lawyer with presidential aspirations (still without the signature beard he would grow in 1860) listened as Douglas called him “two-faced”. “If I had another face, do you think I’d wear this one?” Lincoln replied.
For Independence Day 2022 I painted Lincoln as that younger ...