This is hardly how I wanted to break a two-month absence from my blogging work. I was hoping for some notes on the new Pope Francis, or that I’d finally finish my thought experiment on rape and rebuttable presumption, or … Continue reading
I had planned to spend tonight, the last night before the election, finally talking about Minnesota’s Voter ID Amendment, explaining why requiring photographic identification is a wise policy and why the arguments against the amendment are (as I was planning … Continue reading
In Minnesota’s ongoing debate over the constitutional questions before voters this fall, opponents have occasionally raised a question that has nothing to do with the wisdom of the policies themselves. “Is it appropriate to enshrine this policy in the Minnesota … Continue reading
This appendix expands on my discussion, in Part IV, of the constitutionality of §939.75(2)(b)(1) of the Wisconsin Code if the Personhood Amendment passes AND Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court at some future date AND abortion-rights advocates … Continue reading
This post is a direct continuation of Part III of my series on Personhood Wisconsin. I am not even stopping to breathe, much less to recap the discussion for those of you just joining us. If you want to catch … Continue reading
If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first. You might also wish to read the second article in this series, which discussed Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about the Personhood Amendment. We now … Continue reading
If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first. This post deals with Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about Personhood. For a discussion of the (substantially different) arguments employed by its legal white paper, … Continue reading
The battle for the soul of the pro-life movement is being waged between a pair of cheap office suites in the Milwaukee suburbs. In the challenger’s corner, scrappy Pro-Life Wisconsin is working to pass an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution … Continue reading
This week saw some briefs filed in the lawsuit over Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s attempt to unilaterally change the title of the Minnesota Marriage Amendment. The briefs are the first real meat in the case, and help clarify some … Continue reading
One of the things that makes it difficult to track the Divorce Revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s (and its many dire consequences) is the fact that, after California “started” the revolution on January 1, 1970, the effective date … Continue reading