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The expectation that events would run like clockwork was disappointed on January 20, casting the tiniest of palls on an extraordinary day certain to join our mystic chords of memory. When the chief justice rendered “faithfully” the successor to the word “president?...
If there were such a thing as a golden age of capital punishment in America, it peaked in 1999. There were 98 executions in the U.S. that year, the highest number since 1976, when the Supreme Court, which had overturned all death penalty laws in 1972, began approving them again...
We applaud Senator Russ Feingold, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, for introducing a constitutional amendment this week that requires special elections to fill Senate vacancies. While special elections are often expensive and difficult to execute in a short amount of time, they are necessary to ensure...
And let it be recorded that Obama's first act as President was to correct Chief Justice John Roberts, who managed somehow to mangle the 35-word oath of office, misplacing the word faithfully, as in "faithfully execute the office of President ..." Roberts then mangled it a second time, Obama...
There has been development, of course. But even success stories are full of problems. The U.S. has built new schools, but there are not enough teachers, and salaries are so low that nobody stays. On a trip to Helmand last summer I met a farmer who had been offered a...