Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.