GianCarlo Canaparo

4 weeks ago | heritage.org | GianCarlo Canaparo

We've reached the end of the term after a blockbuster month and an incredibly full week of orders and opinions. Your hosts wish farewell to Justice Breyer who is now officially retired and welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson. This week the Court decided all of its remaining cases including West Virginia v. EPA, a challenge to a power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency, Biden v. Texas, a challenge to Biden's attempt to cancel the Remain-in-Mexico policy, and Kennedy v.

1 month ago | heritage.org | GianCarlo Canaparo

The Supreme Court enjoys creating catch-22 scenarios. It has generated numerous instances. For example, it holds that the Free Exercise Clause forbids anti-religious discrimination, but also holds that the Establishment Clause sometimes requires anti-religious discrimination. It says that the Civil Rights Act prohibits race discrimination, but it created the disparate impact theory of liability, which sometimes requires race discrimination.

1 month ago | dailysignal.com | GianCarlo Canaparo

The nation’s elite law firms are on the wrong side of the nation’s civil rights laws again. In March, many of those firms received letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanding information about their allegedly racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. In April, several of those firms settled with the EEOC and promised not to discriminate based on race when making hiring and promotion decisions and agreed to submit to ongoing monitoring.

1 month ago | newsexaminer.com | GianCarlo Canaparo

When liberals hear conservatives say that the president should have total control over the executive branch, what they often hear is that the president should be a unitary lawmaker. That explains why one New York Times journalist erroneously described unitary executive as “reject[ing] the idea that the government is composed of three separate branches.”Liberals are right to fear a unitary lawmaker. A unitary lawmaker is likely to be a tyrant, unless he’s an angel, and men never are.

1 month ago | newsexaminer.com | GianCarlo Canaparo

When liberals hear conservatives say that the president should have total control over the executive branch, what they often hear is that the president should be a unitary lawmaker. That explains why one New York Times journalist erroneously described unitary executive as “reject[ing] the idea that the government is composed of three separate branches.”Liberals are right to fear a unitary lawmaker. A unitary lawmaker is likely to be a tyrant, unless he’s an angel, and men never are.