The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Left Blows a Gasket
The left was already hysterical ever since Trump won a second term, but this week the left had a total meltdown after the Supreme Court scaled back racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act. And the Three Whisky Happy Hour was totally there for it! The big question for us was, what took them so long?
The gang also discusses some of the most recent revelations of perfidy over COVID and other matters during the Biden Administration, and whether another assasination attempt against President Trump is a sign that leftist rage is becoming a critical danger to domestic tranquility, and an ominous sign that wokeri is not going away any time soon.
Plus the unveiling of our custom land acknowledgment at the end.
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Neoconclave Edition
Steven Hayward, John Yoo, and the pseudonymous Lucretia break down the week's top stories and continue a long-running argument about first principles.
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Constitutionalism
Amicus Brief: Hon. William P. Barr and Hon. Michael B. Mukasey in Support of Petitioners
Former AGs Barr and Mukasey Cite Civitas in a SCOTUS Brief
Rational Judicial Review: Constitutions as Power-sharing Agreements, Secession, and the Problem of Dred Scott
Judicial review and originalism serve as valuable commitment mechanisms to enforce future compliance with a political bargain.
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State Courts Can’t Run Foreign Policy
Suncor is also a golden opportunity for the justices to stop local officials from interfering with an industry critical to foreign and national-security policy.
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Colorado’s Secularist Hostility Strikes Again
The Supreme Court needs to give lower federal courts a more workable test for determining when facially neutral conditions constitute religious exclusion.
Justice Harlan and President Trump Are Right About Birth Tourism
The Supreme Court should follow Justice Harlan’s lead: Children of illegal aliens are citizens at birth, but children born to pregnant women on temporary tourist visas are not.
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