February 29, 2016 Justice Scalia the giant cannot be replaced. Justice Scalia, the member of a sharply divided court will have to be. In the last half century the courts – the Supreme Court in particular – have become the forum of choice for partisan minorities of both the right and, especially, the left to…
Month: February 2016
Justice Scalia – An American Originalist
As with the loss of many charismatic public leaders, especially those with an outsize, engaging personality, the sudden death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 leaves a great sense of individual loss in many of us who were not personally acquainted A brilliant and clear thinker, Judge Scalia expressed himself but…
Letters: The President’s Pick
Boston Herald letter, February 22, 2016 Justice Antonin Scalia, the Originalist, would have been horrified by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s assertion that “the American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice” (“Battle is on for Scalia’s replacement,” Feb. 17). The Constitution provides that a president, elected by electors, shall…
After South Carolina and Nevada
February 21, 2016 Following the South Carolina primary, Jeb Bush, the once prohibitive favorite, is gone from the Republican Presidential contest. He is a decent, capable man. (One must struggle to avoid referring to him in the past tense, as if he were dead.) What went wrong with a conservative and very successful two-term governor…
Agenda lurking in junket complaint?
Cape Cod Times letter, February 5, 2016 L. Michael Hager of Eastham writes complaining of a legislative junket to Israel paid for by the Jewish Community Relation Council of Greater Boston (“Ethics panel complicit in senators’ junket,” My View, Jan. 30). The trip apparently was filled with visits to cultural sites and meetings with Israeli…
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