Standing is probably one of the most disliked doctrines in American law. Basically, it requires private plaintiffs in federal court (most state courts, including in NC, have similar rules) to show that they have been individually harmed by an action before they can sue to stop it. Since it is a procedural limit, standing often
For the past three years, the conservative legal movement in America has been split by a debate over natural law. Basically, there are two schools of thought. The first, called positivism, is embodied by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who believed that judges should be bound by the text of the law as enacted by
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Voters backed ballot initiatives on Tuesday to protect abortion access, while simultaneously striking down efforts by conservatives to restrict the practice.
I detect an emerging trend in the anti-conservative mainstream media using conservatives to attack other conservatives. The New York Times is leading the charge. How else does one explain the Times publishing the op-ed by common good conservative Adrian Vermuele attacking originalism? Or an op-ed by three leading common good (or national) conservatives attacking the Republican foreign policy establishment? The publication of the two pieces can partially be explained