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Reaction to and commentary about the college admissions scandal is a silly season sprinkled with liberal doses of hyperbole, feigned shock, but mainly inapposite and excessive reactions.  These began right after the reflexive “what do we wish for:” A.      I hope my...

Knowledge of, faith in and fidelity to The United States Constitution has come a long way in New York State.  From John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, two drafter/shepherds of the Constitution, to Andrew Cuomo and Letitia James. Steeply downhill it appears, as the...

This floating legal treatise will not offer yet another pronouncement on the 47 months imposed on Paul Manafort for crimes that the sentencing guidelines prescribe a term of 19 to 24 years.  Nor the district court judge’s comment that Manafort otherwise had led a...

February commemorates Black History.  HL celebrates these important markers idiosyncratically.  Not by recalling what was hammered into the head about Crispus Attucks but his own experience with what is being celebrated.  Reflecting on what Martin Luther King, Jr....

Thomas Friedman had been touting the College Board’s findings that proficiency in two codes, the U.S. Constitution and computer science, most highly correlate with success in college and career.  Reading this, and having just finished teaching a con law course at alma...

Let them, who would feel justly stoned and deprived of high office for doing something as racist as Ralph Northam did 35 years ago, launch the first projectiles.  One bad part of what the press constantly refers to as “near unanimous calls for Northam to resign as...