Writings by Topic: Legal and Judicial Issues
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Publication |
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| The line even the Know Nothings didn't cross |
Arguable |
March 24, 2026 |
| Magical thinking about the Equal Rights Amendment |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2026 |
| When a president clung fiercely to the rule of law |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2026 |
| Saints in storage |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2026 |
| Orchestras aren't what make the West worth defending |
Arguable |
January 27, 2026 |
| From two midwives in Egypt to Martin Luther King |
Arguable |
January 13, 2026 |
| On the Supreme Court, overturning bad precedents is part of the job |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2025 |
| It's time to end presidential pardons |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2025 |
| 'Endowed by their Creator' — or by the state? |
Arguable |
September 9, 2025 |
| Politics doesn't belong in the pulpit. Neither does the IRS. |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2025 |
| Washington State targets the confessional seal |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2025 |
| No tariffs without representation |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2025 |
| Abolish the presidential pardon power |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 2025 |
| The growing appeal of the 'Live Free or Die' state |
Arguable |
January 7, 2025 |
| 'Raise the Age' laws draw more teens into crime |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 2024 |
| A commutation for federal death row inmates would be a travesty of justice |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2024 |
| Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right that Trump can't revoke |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2024 |
| A student's T-shirt says: 'There are only two genders.' What does the Constitution say? |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2024 |
| Oklahoma urges private groups to launch charter schools — as long as they're not religious |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2024 |
| The empty symbolism of criminal charges against Hamas |
The Boston Globe |
September 8, 2024 |
| The high cost of letting passengers evade transit fares |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2024 |
| America tortured the 9/11 mastermind. That's why he will never pay for his crimes. |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2024 |
| A chance to bring term limits back to life |
The Boston Globe |
June 30, 2024 |
| What a nutty lawsuit |
Arguable |
June 25, 2024 |
| Will a government warning label really make social media safer? |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2024 |
| The Supreme Court has a conservative supermajority. So why don't conservatives always win? |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2024 |
| Before there was Trump there was James Michael Curley |
Arguable |
June 4, 2024 |
| Defying the Supreme Court on student loans, Biden sets a dangerous precedent |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2024 |
| The phony feeding frenzies over 'bloodbath' and 'hamstringing' |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2024 |
| The seventh-grader and the First Amendment |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2024 |
| At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2024 |
| Chester Darling's landmark life |
Arguable |
November 28, 2023 |
| A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2023 |
| Say it again, Supremes: Forced union dues in government are illegal |
The Boston Globe |
October 25, 2023 |
| Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2023 |
| 'Art is anything you can get away with' |
The Boston Globe |
September 25, 2023 |
| Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 2023 |
| From Cuban princeling to imprisoned dissident |
Arguable |
August 8, 2023 |
| André Watts, 1946-2023 |
Arguable |
August 1, 2023 |
| What Gavin Newsom's proposed 28th Amendment gets right |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2023 |
| The Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" |
Arguable |
July 11, 2023 |
| In rejecting affirmative action, Justice Thomas is no hypocrite |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2023 |
| Oklahoma says yes to a religious charter school. So does the First Amendment. |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 2023 |
| Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump's whims |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2023 |
| There is no '14th Amendment option' to raise the debt ceiling |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 2023 |
| Rachael Rollins was a disgrace |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2023 |
| Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2023 |
| Don't give up Twitter, NPR. Give up your subsidy. |
Arguable |
April 18, 2023 |
| Lawmakers challenge the secrecy of the confessional |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 2023 |
| There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2023 |
| Trump, Biden, and the double standard on mishandling classified documents |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2023 |
| No, Justice Barrett should not recuse herself |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2022 |
| The Supreme Court can remind officials how to take a joke |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2022 |
| The pardon power is being stretched too far |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2022 |
| Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's |
The Boston Globe |
September 11, 2022 |
| Alive and well and living on death row |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2022 |
| Country before party. GOP before Trump. |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2022 |
| Overturning Roe does not make the Supreme Court 'illegitimate' |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2022 |
| 'Red-flag' laws raise some red flags |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2022 |
| The freedom to uphold an unpopular opinion |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2022 |
| When Stalin and Hitler were allies |
Arguable |
May 9, 2022 |
| Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2022 |
| Alito's first draft is a good one. But first drafts change. |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2022 |
| The Constitution protects your right to vote — and your right not to |
The Boston Globe |
April 27, 2022 |
| Mississippi's mainstream abortion law |
The Boston Globe |
April 6, 2022 |
| A peaceful Supreme Court confirmation, for a change |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2022 |
| Does free speech fly at City Hall Plaza? |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 2022 |
| Restore the original immigration policy: an open door |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 2021 |
| Arguable: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored |
Arguable |
October 25, 2021 |
| Sirhan should die behind bars |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2021 |
| The census is too nosy |
The Boston Globe |
August 12, 2021 |
| The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2021 |
| The very racist history of gun control |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 2021 |
| Again the Supreme Court defends religious believers. Again it's unanimous |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2021 |
| Women don't register for the draft, and men shouldn't either |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2021 |
| Which party gains if Roe goes down? |
The Boston Globe |
May 23, 2021 |
| In nature and in government, sunsets are beautiful |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2021 |
| Jim Crow was a horror. Don't trivialize it |
Arguable |
April 12, 2021 |
| Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so |
The Boston Globe |
March 7, 2021 |
| Why New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2021 |
| Biden is right to be leery of court-packing |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2020 |
| Michigan and Pennsylvania courts struck down pandemic orders. Will the SJC? |
The Boston Globe |
October 11, 2020 |
| Expect liberal rulings from the 'most conservative' Supreme Court |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 2020 |
| Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 2020 |
| Baker's pandemic orders were tough, but were they lawful? |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2020 |
| The Christian flag and the Boston flagpole |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2020 |
| Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2020 |
| The enduring value of the Electoral College |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2020 |
| The Constitution says no to DC statehood |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2020 |
| College admissions cheating is sleazy, but it shouldn't be a federal case |
The Boston Globe |
May 27, 2020 |
| The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2020 |
| State lawmakers need to have more say in a crisis |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2020 |
| A civil liberties pandemic |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2020 |
| The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 2020 |
| More impeachments, please |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 2020 |
| Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2019 |
| 'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2019 |
| Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' — and profoundly un-American |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2019 |
| The sheer ingratitude of Dennis Prager |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2019 |
| Biden was right. Busing was wrong |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2019 |
| When terrorists killed his daughter, his long crusade for justice began |
The Boston Globe |
April 28, 2019 |
| Lower the voting age? Let's raise it instead |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2019 |
| Good policy, bad policymaking, and the 2020 census fight |
The Boston Globe |
February 24, 2019 |
| A war memorial is in the form of a cross. Is that a problem? |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2018 |
| Victims may be sincere, but memory is fallible |
The Boston Globe |
October 10, 2018 |
| Collins falsely cries 'bribery!' in crowdfunded political theater |
The Boston Globe |
September 19, 2018 |
| Anthony Kennedy answered tough questions. Judge Kavanaugh should, too |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 2018 |
| The cynical 'millionaires tax' didn't fool the SJC |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2018 |
| The real significance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision |
The Boston Globe |
June 6, 2018 |
| Snobs rage, but the Berkshire Museum's future looks bright |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2018 |
| Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle — until the government said it wasn't |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 2018 |
| Government unions play politics with unconstitutional dollars |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2018 |
| Arts elitists to Berkshire Museum: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2018 |
| In an age of e-commerce, the 'Quill rule' is more vital than ever |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2018 |
| If the SJC sticks to precedent, the 'millionaire tax' is going nowhere |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2017 |
| What the Constitution says about cakes and compelled speech |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2017 |
| Liberate government workers from forced union fees |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2017 |
| Abusive gerrymandering can be stopped, but not by judges |
The Boston Globe |
October 4, 2017 |
| Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2017 |
| Freedom of speech, even in therapy |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 2017 |
| Don't nuke the filibuster — restore it |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 2017 |
| Gorsuch says judges aren't 'secret legislators'. Actually, they legislate all the time |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 2017 |
| Is that sermon political? |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2017 |
| No men need apply |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2017 |
| Make SCOTUS nominees answer the tough questions |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2017 |
| Healey's Exxon witch-hunt |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2016 |
| Is Thanksgiving constitutional? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2016 |
| The candidates' high court priority — and the Constitution's |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2016 |
| Houses of worship are more than pews and prayerbooks |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 2016 |
| If the Supreme Court had term limits, confirmations wouldn't be so bloody |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2016 |
| Obama can't rewrite immigration law, even for the better |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2015 |
| The power to regulate is the power to destroy |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2015 |
| Strike down the Supreme Court's 'buffer zone' |
The Boston Globe |
September 6, 2015 |
| How judges corrode the rule of law |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 2015 |
| A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2015 |
| Repeal that law school |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2015 |
| Death or life for Tsarnaev? |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 2015 |
| Campaign contributions and double standards |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2015 |
| Gun rights should cross state lines |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2015 |
| Justices don't belong at the State of the Union pep rally |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 2015 |
| Same-sex weddings, and the right not to perform them |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2014 |
| Wrong sperm, right baby. Why the lawsuit? |
The Boston Globe |
October 12, 2014 |
| DA's abuse of discretion should be condemned, not cheered |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2014 |
| A 'right' to recline? |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 2014 |
| Don't like the Constitution? Amend it |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2014 |
| Blinders and buffer zones |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2014 |
| Credit cards have expiration dates. Laws should too |
The Boston Globe |
June 16, 2014 |
| US legal bubble can't pop soon enough |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2014 |
| Money in politics? McCutcheon's foes don't always say no |
The Boston Globe |
April 6, 2014 |
| Eminent disaster |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 2014 |
| The Court, the buffer zone, and the marketplace of ideas |
The Boston Globe |
January 26, 2014 |
| Buffering out the right to hear |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2014 |
| Another slip down the slope from gay marriage |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 2013 |
| Impeach Obama? Not a chance |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2013 |
| Does the First Amendment stop at 35 feet? |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 2013 |
| Supreme Court life tenure needs a rethink |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2013 |
| Voting rights and the chains of memory |
The Boston Globe |
June 30, 2013 |
| How far does 'marriage equality' go? |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 2013 |
| King's 'Letter' and the law |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2013 |
| Still obsessed with Citizens United |
The Boston Globe |
February 27, 2013 |
| Bad guys' lawyers |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2013 |
| Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2012 |
| The #%@*&! problem |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2012 |
| Jim McGovern's war on the Constitution |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 2012 |
| On trial at Rutgers: hate crime or thought crime? |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 2012 |
| Ganging up on Ginsburg |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 2012 |
| The Supreme Court's judgment isn't absolute |
The Boston Globe |
January 1, 2012 |
| The affirmative-action myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2011 |
| An 'end point' for race-based admissions |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2011 |
| In Oregon, a profile in incoherence |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2011 |
| A deep breath for free speech |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2011 |
| Looting Lorillard |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 2010 |
| Is capital punishment racist? |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 2010 |
| The most conservative court? Hardly |
The Boston Globe |
October 10, 2010 |
| Let the private sector fund stem-cell research |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 2010 |
| Born in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2010 |
| Look who's defending states' rights |
The Boston Globe |
July 18, 2010 |
| Declining on the bench |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2010 |
| Not another 'hollow charade' |
The Boston Globe |
May 19, 2010 |
| Who decides what 'marriage' means? |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2010 |
| Signing on the line is a public act |
The Boston Globe |
May 2, 2010 |
| Candidates, campaigns, and New Coke |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2010 |
| 'The freedom to think for ourselves' |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2010 |
| Live from New York, a terror trial we'll regret |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2009 |
| Kabuki and Sonia Sotomayor |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2009 |
| The 'racist' brand |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 2009 |
| Lady Justice's blindfold |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2009 |
| Roe and Doe, 36 years on |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2009 |
| A silver bullet for Obama's campaign? |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2008 |
| When judicial restraint goes too far |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2008 |
| A 'shadowy' Society |
The Boston Globe |
November 21, 2007 |
| Ludicrous lawsuits |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2007 |
| Lawful incest may be on its way |
The Boston Globe |
May 2, 2007 |
| The Constitution's guardrails |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 2006 |
| Misreading a sign of the times |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2006 |
| Demagogues and the marriage debate |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2006 |
| Scalia loosens up |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2006 |
| 'Freedom for the thought we hate' |
The Boston Globe |
March 1, 2006 |
| 'Privacy' by decree |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 2005 |
| Make them answer |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2005 |
| Dying to get off the court |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 2005 |
| When justices refuse to retire |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2005 |
| Eminent injustice in New London |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2005 |
| The case for judicial term limits |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 2005 |
| Why NOT torture terrorists? |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2005 |
| A phony 'consensus' on youthful killers |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2005 |
| The pirates of eminent domain |
The Boston Globe |
February 27, 2005 |
| Medical marijuana: the real stakes |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2004 |
| Old enough to kill. Old enough to die? |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2004 |
| The abusers of eminent domain |
The Boston Globe |
September 30, 2004 |
| The respect donors deserve |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2003 |
| The timeless meaning of marriage |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2003 |
| The slavery reparations hustle |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2002 |
| The SJC blunders on privacy and the police |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2001 |
| If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2000 |
| Hate crime laws send a dangerous message |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 2000 |
| The ACLU and the G-word |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2000 |
| The accuracy of capital punishment |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2000 |
| Punished for praying in Boston |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 1999 |
| Which court got it right? |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 1999 |
| The tobacco money should go to the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
April 12, 1999 |
| Garrity's folly: 25 years after busing began |
The Boston Globe |
January 4, 1999 |
| Microsoft's real crime: success |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 1998 |
| Yandle belongs in prison for life |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 1998 |
| Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 1998 |
| Due process, even for Big Tobacco |
The Boston Globe |
June 16, 1998 |
| The wrong way to protect paychecks |
The Boston Globe |
May 5, 1998 |
| Ivan the terrible, US citizen |
The Boston Globe |
March 10, 1998 |
| A disabling law |
The Boston Globe |
February 17, 1998 |
| Clinton's worst judicial nomination |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 1998 |
| Query for liberals: Should incest be a crime? |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 1998 |
| Latrena Pixley and the downward slide of American jurisprudence |
The Boston Globe |
January 9, 1998 |
| An inspirational teacher of law |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 1997 |
| Justice Brennan's legacy is an imperious judiciary |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 1997 |
| The fall of term limits — and the SJC |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 1997 |
| Rewarding deadbeats |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 1997 |
| In Jones vs. Clinton, hypocrisy left and right |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 1997 |
| A nominee of a different color |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 1996 |
| Paying the price for faith |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 1996 |
| Why the voters should judge the judges |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 1996 |
| Cut the fawning over Justice Liacos |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 1996 |
| 100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 1996 |
| There's a remedy for incompetent judges |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 1996 |
| Should discrimination against homosexuals be illegal? |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 1995 |
| The terrible crimes of Ivan |
The Boston Globe |
September 28, 1995 |
| The Supreme Court doesn't have the final word |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 1995 |
| Whose parade? Whose message? |
The Boston Globe |
May 2, 1995 |
| Stop-at-nothing zealots exploit the ADA |
The Boston Globe |
March 23, 1995 |
| No freedom to mangle the First Amendment |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 1995 |
| Judging policy passed at the polls |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 1994 |
| Are there limits to congressional power? |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 1994 |
| When judges blunder, the remedy is impeachment |
The Boston Globe |
June 28, 1994 |
| Clinton in court over a come-on? Come on! |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 1994 |
| A glib excuse to crash the St. Pat's parade |
The Boston Globe |
March 10, 1994 |
| A blacker shade of racist |
The Boston Herald |
September 16, 1991 |
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