Jacob Becker

Jun 3, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Alison Somin |Jeffrey Bilbro |Jacob Becker |Keith E. Whittington

The Biden administration recently published a comprehensive Title IX rule that constricts due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct and reinterprets sex discrimination to reach sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Many in the media have portrayed the controversy over this rule as a conflict between cultural conservatives and progressives. That story is true, but there is another story as well.

Oct 16, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

“Many lines have been written since the close of World War II about Hitler and his immediate subordinates. … The impression most commonly left by commentators is that the responsibility for Germany’s tragic years could be laid solely at the feet of these leaders and their immediate associates. This is a misconception.” This is how the preeminent lawyer and power broker Leon Jaworski began his account of the prosecution of German war crimes in his book, After Fifteen Years (1961).

Jun 27, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

Today marks one year since the Supreme Court handed down Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, last term’s seminal decision on prayer in school. At the time, some legal and lay commentators lamented the court’s holding, but a year of lower-court rulings suggests their fears were unwarranted.