Calvert Institute, July 30, 2023 Israel’s Juristocracy–and Ours by George Liebmann The conflict over the power of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply divided Israeli society. The Likud party and religious conservatives contest the powers of a self-perpetuating court which recognizes few limits on its power to impugn both legislation by the Knesset and executive action. […]
Book Announcement- JOURNAL OF TWO PLAGUE YEARS by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the […]
Their Party’s Call The Democrats have completely disregarded late Senator Bob Dole’s admonition to “read before you sign.” Aug 2, 2022 12:01 AM “He always voted at his party’s call / And he never thought of thinking for himself at all.” This Gilbert and Sullivan character anticipated by 150 years virtually all the Democratic members […]
Moral Anarchy and Its Consequences by George Liebmann “Abroad, to show that everyone was passionate for peace All children under seven joined the army or police The babies studied musketry while mother filled a shell And the Minister still wondered why the population fell” This spoof by the British humorist and independent M.P. A.P. Herbert […]
Democrat Libertarianism: Five Modest Proposals By George Liebmann The recent statement of the Biden administration in support of trans-gender rights and operations is one of the more astonishing documents of our time, It must have been vetted by Attorney General Garland and HHS Secretary Becerra, whose names deserve to be indelibly associated with it. Fifty […]
Abortion: An End to Hysteria The reaction to Justice Alito’s leaked abortion opinion makes clear that the industry and its Democratic allies have abandoned any desire that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare.’ That would imply efforts to discourage it in the European manner through waiting periods, counselling requirements, co-payments and notification requirements. What […]
Last Stand Of The Court Packers The nation’s political centralizers find themselves distressed in an age in which there is increasing demand for decentralization. JANUARY 4, 2022|TheAmericanConservativeOnline GEORGE LIEBMANN The hysteria of such as E.J. Dionne, Linda Greenhouse, and Laurence Tribe about an assertedly partisan and conservative Supreme Court is amusing to observe. I recall […]
VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 110 short ‘op-ed’ articles written over a 25-year period encompassing the unfortunate Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump administrations; included are a few longer pieces on welfare, reapportionment, Palestine, and civil rights ‘consent decrees.’ This collection is followed by book reviews of […]
Dobbs V. Jackson: An Easy Opinion The rejection of a “compelling state interest” test will remove abortion from national politics. DECEMBER 1, 2021|12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN Asimple Baltimore lawyer here tenders a short opinion to dispose of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the abortion case from Mississippi in oral arguments before the Supreme Court […]
Our Unrestrained Attorney General Merrick Garland has done nothing to show himself to be the moderator of partisanship some hoped he might be. NOVEMBER 23, 2021 | 12:01 AM GEORGE LIEBMANN When Merrick Garland was appointed attorney general, there was a widespread belief that as a person acclaimed as a “moderate,” he would be a […]