The American Conservative Justice Kagan’s Apostasy The judiciary abdicates its duty when it tolerates broad-ranging executive “emergency powers.” George Liebmann Aug 2, 2023 12:01 AM Supreme Court–watchers who try to see beyond the moment have frequently perceived Justice Elena Kagan as a future chief justice. She comes from a family of civil servants and is […]
The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]
On Centralized and De-Centralized Federal Courts Constitutional litigation should be more rare, and should involved fully developed and not assumed facts. George Liebmann,TheAmericanConservativeOnline Jul 20, 2023 12:01 AM Today’s discourse about legal issues is characterized by two phenomena: partisan polarization and indifference to history. Recent comments on the decision of Judge Terry Doughty in the […]
Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]
The true import of Supreme Court rulings on televising criminal trials By Letter To The Editor From://George W. Liebmann//May 25, 2023, Maryland Daily Record To the Editor: I view with some annoyance the statement by the non-dissenting members of your Editorial Advisory Board (“On broadcasting criminal trials,” May 12, 2023) that I have provided ”misinformation” […]
Ukraine and Russia: The Endgame The key to the situation is to ask what any reasonable Russian government, tsarist, democratic, communist, or authoritarian would want. George Liebmann.theamericanconservativeonline Apr 26, 2023 12:00 PM Many of the usual suspects who upheld America’s unwise wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—and its ill-considered interventions in Yugoslavia, Syria, and Libya, […]
Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]
Why are Maryland Dems so jubilant about expanding abortion access? | READER COMMENTARY For The Baltimore Sun • Feb 16, 2023 at 11:10 am by George Liebmann State constitutional abortion amendment a ‘political mobilizing device’ for Dems Maryland has a liberal abortion law, unaffected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s […]
The American Conservative Online An End to Leveling Down Many well-intentioned people defend the affirmative action regime despite its visible consequences. George Liebmann Feb 1, 2023 12:01 AM The affirmative action cases pending before the Supreme Court will undoubtedly produce an uproar—before and after the court’s decision—comparable to that accompanying the Dobbs abortion case. The […]
To: rules@mdcourts.gov Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:52 PM Dear Ms. Haines: Subject: Extended coverage rule set for hearing on January 6 at 2:30 p.m. Ms. Sandra Haines Rules Committee Dear Ms. Haines: I am a Baltimore lawyer who served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Brune in 1963-64, subsequently served as an Assistant Attorney […]