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Adapting a platitude from the formative 1960s, I’ll just croon that some of my best friends are people I’ve never met, white, black and other.  Though a security camera might reveal me chatting a few times with columnist David Brooks in front of 1601 Eye Street in...

Most attention paid to the SCOTUS actions announced Monday (6/26/17) centered on the grant of certiorari for Trump’s petitions to reverse the Fourth and Ninth Circuit’s injunctions against his second travel ban.  That and the Court’s partial stay of those injunctions...

For a time, top of mind and above the fold was news of Trump’s travel bans, classic and redux and their serial invalidation by federal district courts around the country.  But recently the Fourth Circuit, comprised of Maryland, the Virginias and the Carolinas, became...

Four days after HL 36, titled “SCOTUS Refusal to Review North Carolina Voter Suppression Case Speaks Volumes” explained the real (and otherwise unreported) reason the Supreme Court declined to review the Fourth Circuit’s nullification of voting restrictions that...

In 2013 when The Americans began airing, the series was merely a brilliant TV show, allowing Russellholics their first extended binge on Keri since Felicity.  But as time passes and the seasons have extended to its current fifth, the show has become increasingly...

Freud supposedly said “Madame sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”  But it was no mere stogie on Monday when Chief Justice John Roberts disingenuously recited the caveat that it meant nothing for SCOTUS to decline review of the Fourth Circuit’s decision invalidating...