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The crusade to ban smoking on U.S. airline flights gained altitude last week. In the first legislation of its kind, California prohibited smoking on flights that begin and end in the state as of Jan. 1. Whether the law can be enforced, however, is an open question. California Governor George...
THE PROBLEM is that Bork's America is an unprincipled polity, in which morality is what the majority says it is and individuals have no prior claim to rights against the state. His philosophy is informed by an astounding moral skepticism alien to American tradition and the way most Americans...
If he joins the high court, the sharp-edged axioms of Bork the scholar might be tempered by the tradition of stare decisis (standing by what has been decided), the judicial practice of reaching decisions that accord with earlier rulings. He disagrees, for instance, with the "commerce clause" decisions of...
Moreover, in the near future the court is not likely to hear any cases that deal with outright prohibitions against abortion. "What they're going to have," says UCLA Law Professor Julian Eule, "is cases that deal with a variety of obstacles to abortion that the states have constructed. Therefore...
Argues Georgia State Auditor G.W. Hogan: "The Government is imposing a tax on our income." Why is that allegedly unconstitutional? Says Frank Shafroth, federal relations director for the National League of Cities: "For 200 years the Federal Government didn't tax state and local governments or regulate their taxing, and...