Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.
Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.
It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. , and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.
Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.
Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.